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Gladstone Camp Week Opens For 9/23rd Light Horse
Wine scented opening as 570 soldiers camp at Boogoolee with Major Harslett in charge. A week of drills, street carnival, and dances drew about 1400 spectators. Dinners and toasts honored 9/23rd Light Horse, R.S.L., and local leaders amid patriotic remarks and plans for future training and town progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
23Rd Light Horse Regiment
Boogoolee
Peninsula
If. T. Harslett
A. J. Lawrie
E. L. Cohen
Claude Carnell
Naish Casey
Jack Page
R.S.L
Major Day
Adelaide
O'Neill
Starslett
Stoutke
Gladstone
A. Lyons
Harslett
Stantke
J. Stephens
9Th
L.H
Palestine
Bob Coe
A. Watt
Col. Stanske
R. S. Ballantyne
Mwe Sai
League
R. H. Coe
Maughan
Spencer Berry
N. Campbell
McFarlane
G. M. Black
Miell
Lieut. Hogg
Syd. Heaslip
G. G. Partridge
Miss Wheatley
Sotel