Posts Tagged World War II

Voluntary Aid Detachment in Wagga Wagga

Posted on September 16, 2010 by

In July 1940, the VAD began work at the AIF Tent Hospital at the Wagga Showground with members attending daily under the supervision of voluntary trained nursing staff and military orderlies…

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Women’s Fire Auxiliary (Wagga Wagga)

Posted on June 7, 2010 by

The value of auxiliary fire fighters had been proved where air raids had ravaged overseas countries and the Wagga Wagga WFA spent three months doing their course of fire fighting.

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Women’s Voluntary Services – an important part of the war effort

Posted on September 23, 2009 by

World War Two changed the paths of thousands of Australian women as they found themselves in altogether different roles than was traditionally known to them.

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