Women in the Armed Forces from the Boer War to Current Day

Each year, at the meeting before ANZAC Day, our club invites a person to speak who has been involved in the armed services or who has some knowledge of the history of ANZAC Day.

This year, we are delighted to have Pam Raison as our guest speaker.

Pam is a former member of our Rotary club.

She was among the first four women to graduate from the Army Reserve in Melbourne in 1981.

She served the best part of 28 years in the military as a teacher.

She started out as an intelligence officer at an artillery regiment in Brisbane, spent a year in Perth as a reservist and eventually weaved her passion for education into her army career five years later.

Ms Raison said no two days were the same throughout her career – from teaching English and mathematics to troops posted across the globe to studying Indonesian and French abroad.

Her talk will focus on the history of women in the armed services from the Boer War to present day.