Lady Soldiers

This book contains the stories of 51 women, from all over Australia, who joined the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) or the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC) between 1953 and 1976, and went on to serve from anything between two and twenty-four years.Few people outside or even inside the military know much about the women’s corps in the Army, so this book provides an especially valuable record. The personal histories recounted here offer a rich and important historical source that can describe things in a way that other documents cannot. It is a wonderful record of what it was like to serve in the WRAAC and RAANC from the 1950s to the 1970s and beyond, and of what happened to the former soldiers once they left military service. xvii, 243 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 21 cm. Australia. Army — Women — Biography. | Australia. Army. Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps — History. | Australia. Army. Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps — History. | Women soldiers — Australia — Biography. | Military spouses — Australia — Biography. | Vietnam War