ELEVEN ENGAGED
AUSTRALIAN SERVICEMEN ON DUTY TN NEW GUINEA Eleven of'the 78 privates attached to an Australian Women’s Army Service unit have become engaged during their seven months’ service in New Guinea, providing their unit with the highest engagement rate of any in New Guinea. There are rumours of several more engagements to be added to the unit’s record. Six of the girls became engaged to men who were patients in the Australian General Hospital to which their unit is attached, and all of them became engaged to Australian men, in spite of strong American opposition in the area.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32425, 1 May 1944, Page 6
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99ELEVEN ENGAGED Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32425, 1 May 1944, Page 6
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