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Haurongo: Bell, Francis Wirgman Dillon rāua ko Bell, Margaret Brenda

Margaret Brenda Bell

Margaret Brenda Bell

Brenda Bell was best known as New Zealand's first female amateur radio operator, but she was also involved in many voluntary organisations and contributed to the war effort in both world wars. Here she is seen in Voluntary Aid Detachment uniform, in October 1945.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand Free Lance Collection (PAColl-0785)

Reference: PAColl-6203-54

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Ian Dougherty. 'Bell, Francis Wirgman Dillon rāua ko Bell, Margaret Brenda', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1998. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/160/margaret-brenda-bell (accessed 4 June 2026).