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Nora Heysen Col Sybil H Irving, MBE, controller of AWAS

oil on canvas

76.4 x 56 cm

Image courtesy Australian War Memorial, Canberra

This portrait by Nora Heysen of Sybil Howy Irving, controller of the Australian Women’s Army Service, is now in the collection of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.