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REES, CORALIE CLARKE (1908-1972), journalist, broadcaster and author, was born on 23 October 1908 in Perth,


In 1946 she wrote Silent his Wings, an elegy in memory of her brother Max who was killed in 1944 while serving with the Royal Australian Air Force in Canada. It is widely regarded as her finest work.


Select Bibliography

L. Rees, Hold Fast to Dreams (Syd, 1982); Womanspeak, Aug-Sept 1987; H. de Berg, interview with Coralie Rees (transcript, 1968, National Library of Australia); private information. More on the resources

Author: Lesley Reece

Print Publication Details: Lesley Reece, 'Rees, Coralie Clarke (1908 - 1972)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16, Melbourne University Press, 2002, p. 67.