Olwen Wooster

Olwen Abigail Wooster BEM (22 December 1917 – 11 October 1981) was an Australian air force officer and pioneering telecommunications engineer expert.

[3] In World War II, she was a wireless telegraphy operator in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force in 1942.

[1] After the war, Wooster worked at Trans Australia Airlines in Melbourne, specialising in ground communications.

[6][7] In 1964, Wooster then joined the Victorian Totalisator Agency Board, which operated gambling and betting shops.

Here she worked on communications and computing systems which connected around three hundred town and country agencies and district centres with racecourses.