Doris Trevorrow
born Kelly
1908 to 1991aged 83
At home; wartime canteen work, Fremantle harbour
- Born
- 21 October 1908, Fremantle, Western Australia
- Died
- 30 May 1991, Fremantle, Western Australia
Fremantle born, Irish-Australian. She married a Cornishman in 1936 who would not discuss where he had been between 1927 and 1936 and she stopped asking. She worked the Fremantle harbour canteen through the war, when the port was the second largest Allied submarine base in the Pacific and 416 war patrols went out of it. She made Arthur write the 1948 letter.
Accomplishments
- Four years on the Fremantle harbour canteen1942
From 1942 to 1945, when Fremantle was the largest Allied submarine base in the southern hemisphere and 416 war patrols went out of the port.
- Made her husband write home after twenty one years of silence1948
Which he would not have done.
