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).
Mayor Freelander accompanies Henry Duke of Gloucester and Alice Duchess of Gloucester down the front steps of the Carrington Hotel, PM Ben Chifley behind them.
Instructions to the hotel included: ice, bitters and gin for the Duke on arrival, beer for the Duke at lunch, fruit juice for the Duchess, no soup or oysters and no addresses of any description during lunch.
According to the official schedule the party left the dining room at 1.55 pm to inspect a guard of ex-servicemen at the front of these steps.
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DUKE AND DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER WELCOMED TO BLUE MOUNTAINS (1946, March 22). The Blue Mountains Advertiser (Katoomba, NSW : 1940 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved December 10, 2019, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189912406
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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).
Henry Duke of Gloucester with Alice the Duchess, arriving at the Carrington Hotel, Katoomba.
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DUKE AND DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER WELCOMED TO BLUE MOUNTAINS (1946, March 22). The Blue Mountains Advertiser (Katoomba, NSW : 1940 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved December 10, 2019, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189912406
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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).
Alice Duchess of Gloucester, Henry Duke of Gloucester, Mayor Freelander on right, PM Ben Chifley behind the Duchess, at top of Katoomba St. On the right is Joseph Jackson MLA NSW. To the left of Jackson in his wig of office is Town Clerk, Percy Pedder Scrivener (1890-1974), son of the surveyor Charles Robert Scrivener.
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DUKE AND DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER WELCOMED TO BLUE MOUNTAINS (1946, March 22). The Blue Mountains Advertiser (Katoomba, NSW : 1940 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved December 10, 2019, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189912406
Joseph Jackson MLA NSW- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Jackson_(Australian_politician)
Charles Robert Scrivener - adb.anu.edu.au/biography/scrivener-charles-robert-8374
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Notes: most of the local population turns out for the occasion of 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).
Crowd assembled at Blue Mountains Hospital to see the Duke of Gloucester open the new hospital extensions.
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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.
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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
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