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Gladstone Welcomes Home Soldiers in Large Community Event
The Gladstone Farewell and Welcome Home Committee hosted a first welcome function at the Gladstone Dirt Hall with about eighty soldiers and relatives attending a dinner at Memorial Hall. District Council Chairman F. J. ONeill presided, praising returning service members from Navy Army and Air Force and urging continued support and rehabilitation. A social followed with certificates of honour presented to each returning personnel and remarks by Lt Col Harslett Major Wilson MP J Lyons and others. The evening closed with a dance and plans for a second event.
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Gladstone
F. J. Oneill
R. Glenn
A. P. Blesing
Gladstone and District
Australia
J.B. Wilson
Mr. O'Neill
Tyne
R Glenn
Gladstone Rsl
Returned Soldiers’ League
Harsiett
Oneill
E. 8. Jew
R. Mundy
J. C. Thomson
Treasure
J. Boxall
Parker
B. ‘Barrett
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M. Lines
J. Budge
Messrs
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Williams
E. Garner
R. Pollard
Old Country
Major Wilson
Banks
Mr. T. Keane
Andrew Sisters
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