Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma)

They were a 250 strong group of British and Australian women who operated mobile canteens for the troops of Burma Command in World War II.

[3][4] The unit moved through Burma with the British Fourteenth Army running mobile canteens providing "char & wads",[5][6] living in dangerous and uncomfortable conditions, sleeping in bombed out, rat infested houses or tents with their stores and equipment brought in by air.

They were evacuated from Myitkyina on the last plane, and from the Battle of Imphal during the siege, but returned as soon as the Japanese retreated, eventually reaching Japan with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force.

Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese referred to them as "the biggest single factor affecting the moral of the forward troops"[8]

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