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Compilation - Memories of Service 5

Web (Excerpts) – 2017

We were the first women in New Zealand to ever be paid a man’s wage, which didn’t go down very well with the farmers of course.
– Joan Butland on being a land girl during World War II
The sergeant was due to come home. So he moved out and, although I was just a gunner then, the next day I was a sergeant. Just like that. Oh God! Sometimes you can be lucky.
– Wally Wyatt, on rising up the ranks in Korea
You’re living in this sort of netherworld, you didn’t see the sun, it’s all thick jungle.
– Lance Corporal Robert Wynn on the Malayan Conflict