Description

Title: A Special Job – the Wheatstone Girls 1943-1945

Author: Kirby, June

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

Publication Date: 1999

ISBN: 1740080122

Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 122 pages

Comments: The history of the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) during World War II. The Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) was established on 13 August 1941, to release men from certain military duties for service with fighting units. The Service recruited women between the ages of 18 and 45 and they served in a variety of roles including clerks, typists, cooks and drivers. In 1945 a contingent was sent to Lae and a small group went to Holland. In June 1947, owing to the end of World War II, the AWAS was disbanded.

Inscription on the title page by the author.