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Kate Boadicea Cocks [B 10886] • Photograph

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Summary

Kate Boadicea Cocks, South Australia's first police woman was born at Moonta where her father was a miner and her mother was a school teacher. After being home tutored Kate returned to the Yorke Peninsula to teach, later becoming schoolmistress at the Girls Reformatory at Edwardstown. She later became South Australia's first woman police constable in 1915. Her responsbilities included female offences.

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Physical description

Photograph; 23.2 cm x 17.5 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1936

Collection

Part of Portrait Collection

Subject

Cocks, Kate, 1875-1954
Policewomen -- South Australia -- Firsts

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Digitisation information

Date

27/09/2024

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

17,103 x 22,869 pixels (391.1 MP)

Size

1.17 GB

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