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Auxiliary service

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Auxiliary service

For women, war work never meant fighting. Instead they performed a variety of roles in a vastly expanded military, as listed on this recruitment poster for the Women's War Service Auxiliary.

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Charlotte Macdonald, Women and men – War and suburbia, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/29240/auxiliary-service (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Charlotte Macdonald, published 30 March 2011, updated 1 August 2017.