Lenne, Lilias Bertha (1924 - 2012)

Born

26 March 1924
Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

Died

2 September 2012
Victoria, Australia

Occupation

Photographer

Alternative Names

Scale, Lilias Bertha (also known as)

Summary

Lilias Bertha Lenne was educated at Merton Hall in Melbourne. In 1940 she enrolled in a commercial course at Melbourne Technical College, where she also studied photography. Lenne served in the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) from 1942 to 1946, working as a photographic assistant in the Photographic and Copying Section of the Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (AEME). Before her marriage to fellow professional photographer Clement Scale in 1949, Lenne ran her own photography business in Hepburn Springs specialising in portraits of children and weddings. Lenne may have been among the earliest photographers to document an entire wedding from start to finish.

Related Organisations

Melbourne Technical College (1934 - 1954)

Related Themes

Photography at RMIT

Archival Resources

National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra

LENNE LILIAS BERTHA : Service Number - VF388732 : Date of birth - 26 Mar 1924 : Place of birth - SHEPPARTON VIC : Place of enlistment - L H Q VIC : Next of Kin - LENNE I, 1939 - 1948, B884, VF388732; National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra. Details

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University Archives

Student Revenue Cards 1935 - 1945, 1935 - 1945, Item no. S17000616, Series S0090; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University Archives. Details

Published Resources

Books

Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, Australian Women Photographers 1840-1960, Greenhouse Publications Pty Ltd, Richmond, Victoria, 1986. Details

Newspaper Articles

'People and Parties', The Age, 30 June 1949, p. 5. Also available at https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/206066411. Details

Webpages

Lilias SCALE, Legacy, 4 September 2012. Also available at https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/lilias-scale-obituary?id=40107469. Details
Maxwell, Anne, with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van, Lenne, Lilias, The Australian Women's Register, 22 October 2020. Also available at https://www.womenaustralia.info/entries/lenne-lilias/. Details

Online Resources

Personal, Shepparton Advertiser, 16 August 1946, 4 pp, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/187171584. Details

Sources used to compile this entry: 'People and Parties', The Age, 30 June 1949, p. 5. Also available at https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/206066411; Lilias SCALE, Legacy, 4 September 2012. Also available at https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/lilias-scale-obituary?id=40107469; Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, Australian Women Photographers 1840-1960, Greenhouse Publications Pty Ltd, Richmond, Victoria, 1986; LENNE LILIAS BERTHA : Service Number - VF388732 : Date of birth - 26 Mar 1924 : Place of birth - SHEPPARTON VIC : Place of enlistment - L H Q VIC : Next of Kin - LENNE I, 1939 - 1948, B884, VF388732; National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra; Student Revenue Cards 1935 - 1945, 1935 - 1945, Item no. S17000616, Series S0090; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University Archives; Victoria Births, Deaths and Marriages, Registration Number 16465/1924; Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/212419761/lilias_bertha-scale: accessed May 28, 2026), memorial page for Lilias Bertha Scale (26 Mar 1924-2 Sep 2012), Find a Grave Memorial ID 212419761, citing Fawkner Memorial Park, Fawkner, City of Merri-bek, Victoria, Australia.

Created: 28 May 2026, Last modified: 3 June 2026