WOMEN’S HOME ARMY IN AUSTRALIA
NON COMBATANT MEN TO
BE REPLACED
{Received August 18, 7 p.m.)
SYDNEY, August 18. The Federal Minister for the Army (Mr P. C. Spender) has announced that the War Cabinet has decided to form a women’s home army as soon as possible to do non-combatant duties now being done f>y men. Mr Spender said that women/had been coming forward to help in eVer-increasing numbers and during the next year it was hoped to absorb many thousands in war work.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23411, 19 August 1941, Page 3
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