Historical information
This file contains two items pertaining to the history of the Caulfield RSL:
1/A newspaper clipping (source unknown, undated) announcing the RSL’s intention to release a history on its 90th anniversary, and its request for residents of Caulfield to provide any information they might possess about former servicemen for purposes of compiling it. Included is a black-and-white photograph of five men and a young boy (unidentified, but referred to as ‘veterans and their families at a 1920s social afternoon’).
2/A pamphlet published by the Caulfield RSL (undated, although presumably published in 1979) announcing a toast, and containing a precis of the Club’s history from its foundation in 1919 to 1979
Subjects
- caulfield,
- caulfield returned servicemen league (rsl),
- ex-service organisations,
- clubs and associations,
- returned service people,
- armed forces,
- caulfield returned sailors’ soldiers’ and airmen’s imperial league of australia (rssaila),
- elsternwick bowling club,
- caulfield city council,
- victorian amateur turf club,
- depression 1929-1939,
- world war 1939-1945,
- london bombing appeal,
- fags for fighters,
- parcels for britain,
- comfort funds,
- caulfield central returned servicemen league (rsl),
- hawthorn road,
- soldiers,
- aged people,
- senior citizens centres,
- st. george’s road,
- elsternwick,
- military history,
- hughes w. w. ‘billie’,
- world war 1914-1918,
- volunteer defence corps,
- rsl war comforts fund,
- hostels,
- holland george sir,
- home help,
- hall william brigadier sir
