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These included the Women's Transport Corps, Women's Flying Club, Women's Emergency Signalling Corps and Women's Australian National Services. [10] In Brisbane alone there were six different organisations providing women with war-related training in July 1940, the largest of which was the Queensland-based Women's National Emergency Legion . [ 11 ]
Pages in category "Women in the Australian military" The following 105 pages are in this category, out of 105 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
These included the Women's Transport Corps, Women's Flying Club, Women's Emergency Signalling Corps and Women's Australian National Services. [1] In July 1940 in Brisbane alone there were six different organisations providing women with war-related training, the largest of which was the Queensland-based Women's National Emergency Legion. [2]
Pages in category "Military alliances involving Australia" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A painting titled Smoko time with the AWLA A papier-mache cow, used for milking demonstrations, is being tied to the car by a Field Officer in the Women's Land Army, Melbourne, 1944. The Australian Women's Land Army (AWLA) was an organisation created in World War II in Australia to combat rising labour shortages in the farming sector. The AWLA ...
Australia and the U.S. began two weeks of war games involving more than 30,000 troops and participants from 11 other countries on Friday, in a show of force and unity at a time when China has ...
Australian women were encouraged to participate in the war effort. The massive expansion of the military led to a critical shortage of male workers and increased female participation in the labour force. The number of Australian women in paid employment increased from 644,000 in 1939, to 855,000 in 1944.
Japan said on Thursday it had invited Australia to join two regular command post military exercises conducted with the United States for the first time. Japan's Minister of Defence Minoru Kihara ...