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On this day: Christmas Day in the Australian Women’s Army Service

Lae, New Guinea, 25 December 1945. The Right Honourable J.B. Chifley talking to Sergeant Pritchard, AWAS, the only woman interpreter of Japanese in the Australian Army.

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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Christmas Day at War

Royal_Artillery_cooks_preparing_Christmas_dinner_near_Geilenkirchen,_Germany,_25_December_1944__B13139 Second World War Two Black and White Christmas Day Vintage

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25th December 1944: British Royal Artillery cooks prepare Christmas dinner near the German town of Geilenkirchen. The region had fallen to the Allies the month before.

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Merry Christmas!

Here in Australia (and I don’t care if it’s dorky – I still love it!) it is now officially Christmas. David Hobson has finished the carols with The Holy City, and until he does it, it’s not really Christmas here.

There’s not a 2017 video yet, but here he is last year:

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A Wartime Christmas

Christmas_Party_For_Trooper_Devereux's_Daughter-_Christmas_in_Wartime,_Pinner,_Middlesex,_December_1944_Mrs Devereux and her 12 year old daughter Jean sit quietly together beside the Chr

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Mrs Devereux and her twelve-year-old daughter Jean at their home in Pinner, Middlesex, England in December of 1944.

The Christmas tree was a present from Mr Devereux, who was serving overseas in the war, and was organised through a YMCA initiative.

More photographs of the family’s Christmas can be found HERE.