Newspaper - Article, The real story of the Great Escape, 1977

Historical information

Three press clippings about guest speakers at Legacy luncheons in 1977. Bill Fordyce was the only Australian survivor of the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III, a POW camp in Poland in World War 2.
Also Professor Lance Townsend speaking on the salaries of doctors, and Mr Johnson, secretary of the Melbourne Cricket Club speaking about cricket.
The items were cut from the newspaper and pasted into a scrapbook. For many years Legacy kept scrapbooks of press clippings that related to their work and publicity.
Not all pages have been scanned but some are listed from 02164 to 02176.

Significance

A record of types of speakers that were invited to speak at Legacy luncheons, and that they spoke on a variety of topics.

Physical description

Newspaper articles x 3 of guest speakers at Legacy luncheons in 1977 pasted to brown page of a scrapbook.

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