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Nora Heysen First Officer S McClemans, WRANS

oil on canvas

77.4 x 57 cm

Image courtesy Australian War Memorial, Canberra

This portrait by Nora Heysen of Sheila McClemans, director of the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service, is now in the collection of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. In the 1943 Archibald list of works, McClemans was misspelled McClemens.