25th December 1945: The Right Honourable J.B. Chifley is photographed talking to Sergeant Pritchard of the Australian Women’s Army Service in Lae, New Guinea.
Pritchard was the Australian Army’s only Japanese translator during the Second World War.
The AWAS saw tens of thousands of women serve in the army for the final four years of the war. The organisation was disbanded in 1947.
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