Notes: the occasion was the official opening of extensions to the Blue Mountains District ANZAC Memorial Hospital. HRH, Henry Duke of Gloucester was at that time the Governor General of Australia (1945-47).
At rear - the Duke and Mayor Freelander, front - the Duchess and Matron Taylor.
The one-armed man on the right is Major Michael Babbington Hawkins, A.D.C. to the Governor-General, the Duke of Gloucester. Formerly of the 10th Hussars (Duke of Gloucester's Regiment), he fought in Libya, where he lost his arm. Before taking up his new appointment, Major Hawkins was on General Alexander's staff in Italy.
Format: B&W photograph
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library
www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/library/
Part of: Local Studies Collection PF 2997-14
Provenance: BMCC correspondence files
Links:
bmlocalstudies.blogspot.com/2019/12/blue-mountains-distri...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Henry,_Duke_of_Gloucester
A.D.C. TO DUKE (1944, November 6). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 4. Retrieved December 17, 2019, from
nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17926589
