To mark Remembrance Day, at 11am today (AEST), the Oath of Remembrance will
be read by a remarkable woman and broadcast across Australia on ABC Local Radio.

Amy Taylor AM, a corporal in the Australian Women’s Army Services, was one of 350 female soldiers who set off for New Guinea aboard the Duntroon in May 1945 – the first Australian
women to be deployed in a military role.

A police sergeant’s daughter, Amy was also a peacetime pioneer. She joined the police force when discharged from the army and, in 1948, became the first woman to direct CBD traffic,
causing jams in Sydney, when ‘everyone stopped to take a look.’ Now she is the only female member on the NSW State Council of the Returned & Services League of Australia.

Mrs Taylor was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1982, and elevated to Member of the Order of Australia in 1997. She is State President of the Australian Women’s
Army Service Association (NSW) and State Councillor for Women’s Services for the RSL of Australia (NSW Branch).