[2] There she met Aubrey Abbott, who was invalided while serving in Sinai, and on 24 October 1916 they married at Westminster Cathedral, in London with Catholic rites.

[3] After the war the couple settled at Echo Hills, a property near Kootingal, New South Wales.

After the bombing Hilda drove a group of evacuees from Darwin to Alice Springs, they did not have a permit to travel and she had to bluff her way through numerous military checkpoints.

Her rationale for this trip was to warn the civil authorities in Alice Springs of the flood of evacuees that would soon be coming.

[9] She explored and documented on film the Aboriginal cave paintings of Kimberley and Arnhem Land in the 1950s and 1960s, and lectured on Australian topics.

[9] She explored and documented on film the Aboriginal cave paintings of Kimberley and Arnhem Land in the 1950s and 1960s, and lectured on Australian topics.

Her work as a designer included a commission to redecorate the bedrooms of the Wentworth Hotel in Sydney.