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An exhibition looking at the lives of Marlborough women during World War 2 opens at the Marlborough Museum this Friday 26 April to coincide with Anzac Day. ....
John Mitchell Ladies’ Machine Gun Cops on Fiji Day. Picture: fiji.webs.com/C.LIAVA’A Men were not the only ones who defended Fiji’s borders during World War I and WWII. Women also played a role, not so much in combat but in other safer “less active” roles. War history records contend that it was not until late 1940 that a Women’s War Service Auxiliary (WWSA) was formed in this part of the world to co-ordinate women’s employment and deployment during WWII. In New Zealand, this led to the formation of a female auxiliary service. NZ women’s engagement in the war allowed their men, hundreds of whom were in Fiji, to do other active service and work in essential industries. ....
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