Words & TermsWar, service and history
nasho
National Service or a person who undertook it.
In a sentence
The museum recorded interviews with former nashos.
Where it came from
Nasho abbreviates National Service and also names a conscript who undertook it. The word is especially tied to Australia’s postwar conscription schemes of the 1950s to early 1970s.
- Initial era
- 1950–1999
- Where used
- Australian use; no narrower regional pattern established
- Use today
- Historical; remembered