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Accession Number | REL33545 |
Collection type | Heraldry |
Object type | Uniform |
Physical description | Cotton drill, Plastic |
Maker |
N332 |
Place made | Australia: New South Wales |
Date made | 1943 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Khaki cotton shirt : Sergeant L Box, Australian Women's Army Service
Long sleeved khaki shirt with front opening with five brown plastic buttons, and single button cuffs and shoulder straps, all with the same buttons. There are woven sergeant's rank chevrons sewn to the upper right sleeve. The shirt is designed to take a detachable collar, which is not present.
VF512513 Sergeant Lorna Annie Box (later Ollif) was born in Stawell, Victoria, in 1913 and enlisted for service in the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) in Melbourne, on 7 September 1943. After initial service at the Army Salvage Depot at Fisherman's Bend she was selected to undertake training at the first AWAS Driving School at Ingleburn in New South Wales. Box served as a driver to AWAS Captain Thelma Long, before being transferred to secretarial duties because of her pre-war experience in this field. In this capacity she posted to service with General Northcott, and with the Military Intelligence Service, including the British Borneo Civil Affairs Unit. Lorna Box was discharged on 15 May 1946. She later wrote and published the first history of the AWAS, 'Women in Khaki', in 1981.