Compilation - Memories of Service 5

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