TRAINING WOMEN
FOR ACTIVE SERVICE NOW UNDER CONSIDERATION The question of training women for active sei-vice duties with the Army is now under consideration by I the authorities. At the present time a large number of members of the YV.W.S.A. are serving as typists, clerks, orderlies, drivers, signallers, ■ and so on, with the armed forces, but this new proposal will take them into the field as crews for predictors, nigh Winders and telescopes. Iu this way they will still further relieve the large number of men en-* gaged in these duties and malce then* available for more important serviceThe uniform, it is understood, will be similar to that of the W.W.S.A. overseas, but with a different insignia. It will be a khaki coat and skirt, with the hat carrying a green* band and a femleaf,.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 66, 17 June 1942, Page 5
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135TRAINING WOMEN Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 66, 17 June 1942, Page 5
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