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Newspaper - Photocopy of newspaper clippings and a photo, Wodonga local paper, Nellie and Ruth are mates from way back (photocopy), February 1996

  • Photocopy of a newspaper clipping. There is a photo of an elderly man and woman at the top half of the page. The lower half shows the title, beneath which is two columns of text and a smaller photo of a nurse with a basket containing five babies.

    202406096

  • Photocopied page of a picture clipped from a newspaper that is 7.5 x 9cm. It shows a lady in a wheelchair being escorted in the ANZAC Day March.

    202406096b

  • Photocopy of a newspaper clipping. There is a photo of an elderly man and woman at the top half of the page. The lower half shows the title, beneath which is two columns of text and a smaller photo of a nurse with a basket containing five babies.
  • Photocopied page of a picture clipped from a newspaper that is 7.5 x 9cm. It shows a lady in a wheelchair being escorted in the ANZAC Day March.

Historical information

Article about the friendship between two Returned Nurses; 84 year old Nellie Norman (a resident at Osburn Lodge Wodonga) and 75 year old Ruth Sampson (who visits old soldiers and returned nurses as an RSL member). Mrs Sampson had one wish, to push Mrs Norman in the ANZAC Day parade. The second page shows a copy of a photo of her fulfilling that wish at the Wodonga ANZAC March in 1996.

Physical description

Photocopy of a newspaper clipping on one page and a photo that accompanies the clipping on the second page.

Inscriptions & markings

'WODONGA LOCAL PAPER / FEB. 1996' [Handwritten in blue ink on the bottom of the first page]
'NC9' [Handwritten in blue ink at the top of the second page]

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