The Mullen sisters by Hannah Rowlands
Eileen Carrig Mullen and Jean Carrig Mullen were sisters who
spent their child hood in South Australia. They lived in Port Augusta with
their father and mother and went to school at St. Aloysius’ Collage Adelaide.
The sisters spent their whole lives together went to school together, had their
first job at the telephone department at the Adelaide G.P.O., then went to
Darwin together
What were they doing in Darwin
After the bombing of Pearl Harbour and attack on Darwin was
imminent, Prime Minister Robert Menzies’ War Cabinet instructed over 2000 women
and children, including my grandmothers aunt and cousin, to be evacuated from
Darwin via any method of transport available
How did they die
On February 19, 1945 Eileen and Jean Mullen were working
just as usual when the air raid began these two women along with 7 others were
killed after evacuating the post office and retreating to the back of the
postmasters house. Sadly nothing they could have done would have saved them
from the direct hit on the house and post office
Quote from their obituary
Their senior officer from their telephone department in Adelaide
said that they were "a charming and vivacious pair, with great integrity
of character, and amongst the most exemplary people the Department had ever
known."
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