If you are interested please contact the Sub-Branch office, Monday to Friday, 9.30 to 12.00 noon on 4197 7477 or drop in and have a chat.
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Legacy
Legacy Badge Week commenced on Saturday last and will run until this Saturday, September 4.  Legacy badge sellers will be out and around in all the Hervey Bay major shopping centres. This week is the major fundraiser for the year and funds are badly needed to help the widows and families of deceased ex-servicemen of which there are over four hundred in Hervey Bay alone. All Legacy workers are volunteers who give their time freely in order to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice for us.

Please consider the work Legacy does and buy a Legacy badge.
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RAAF ASSOCIATION Fraser Coast Branch
The Association invites any person interested in becoming a member to come along to our meetings which are held on 2nd Wednesday of each month commencing 1030 hrs at the Hervey Bay RSL Club. Membership is open to all serving & ex-RAAF, WAAAF, WRAAF, RAAFNS, National Servicemen, members of Her Majesty’s Air Forces & their immediate families. You will be most welcome. Next meeting is September 8.
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Torchbearers for Legacy
The monthly meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 1 at the Hervey Bay RSL Club commencing at 11.30 am.

On Thursday, September 9 the Legacy Torchbearers will be holding their monthly stall at Pialba Place. As usual there will be lots of homemade cakes and biscuits to be bought and lots, lots more.
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War Widows’ Guild of Hervey Bay
The next meeting of the War Widows will be held on Monday, September 6 commencing at 10.00 am at the Hervey Bay RSL Club. For transport please phone Tom on 4124 4780 by Sunday evening.
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Peacekeepers Commemorative Service
To commemorate the service of Australian Peacekeepers and Peacemakers past, present and future the Australian Veterans Group Post 1975 will hold the first commemoration service to be held in Hervey Bay. The service will be held on September 14, 2010 commencing at 1100 hours at the Hervey Bay RSL Club Memorial Gardens. This will be followed by a light luncheon in the ANZAC Lounge.
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Tombola
The RSL Women’s Auxiliary is holding a pre-Christmas Tombola in Hervey House at the RSL Club on Wednesday, October 20. Doors will open at 9.30 for 10.00 am start. There will be plenty of prizes, lucky doors and raffles. Come along and join in the fun, have a cuppa and enjoy a fantastic morning.  Any inquiries phone Jenny on 4125 3927 or Lucille on 4128 4377.
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Notice to Members
It has been brought to our attention that some people are scamming mainly ex-National Servicemen. The ex-serviceman is initially sent a letter advising them that they are entitled to a Service Pension and to contact the author. Once they do this they are then sent a letter with AMF headed paper (which has not been used for many years) asking for their bank details to put the service pension into, their date of birth and other personal information. Their bank accounts are then cleaned out.
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Hervey Bay RSL Sub-Branch Inc.
Office hours:  Monday to Friday, 9.30 am to 12.30 pm.  Telephone 4197 7477. E-mail: subbranch@herveybayrsl.com.au. Website: wwwherveybayrslsubbranch.com.au
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VALE:  Allan Morten Pedersen.  Service No. QX50969. 3 Australian Operating Section. Died 24.08.2010.
—Lest We Forget

AN INTRODUCTION TO

RSL COMMUNITY LINK is not a fundraising project; there are no annual fees, meetings, commitments or requests. Participants can be adults or children – it is open to anyone. RSL Community Link is a Returned and Services League National Remembrance Project dedicated to keeping alive the names, memories and deeds of departed Australian and Allied service veterans, no matter when or where they served or when they died. RSL Community Link does this by enabling people to attend RSL, school and community remembrance services as the personal representative of a departed veteran. The representative proudly wears a VETERAN’S MEMORIAL PLAQUE, It shows the basic details of the departed veteran’s service and includes a full colour ribbon bar indicating the medals issued to the veteran. A REPRESENTIVE LINK CARD is also worn to show the representative’s relationship to the:

There is an intended and rewarding educational aspect to RSL Community Link, namely the researching of the veteran’s service details. The research process is quite simple, it can involve a variety of resources including documents held by the family, and also you can access the internet web sites of the NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE, and the DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN AFFAIRS. The research is easy if you know where to look, so check the research tips that are attached to this introduction. If you do not have access to the internet or you have difficulties with your research, do not worry, a member of the Hervey Bay RSL Sub–Branch will be able to offer you advice, see the contact details at the bottom of this introduction.

The opportunity exists for a departed veteran to be represented by someone to whom they were not known or related. If you have a relative or friend who served in the Armed Forces, but you or your child would like to have the opportunity to participate in remembrance activities, the Hervey Bay RSL Sub–Branch will allocate the name of a deceased veteran to be represented. You then will be required to apply for a Veteran’s Memorial Plaque and a Representative Link Card.

It is quite common for more than one family member to represent the same veteran, for example several grandchildren representing the same grandparent at a remembrance ceremony and all marching on ANZAC DAY. This requires an application for multiple Veteran’s Memorial Plaques and Representative’s Link Cards. A single person cannot represent more than one veteran.

The Hervey Bay RSL Sub–Branch believes it worth while and educational and a very meaningful way for people to be involved in remembering those who served their country and have since passed away, we hope you will give it consideration.

If you have any questions please contact the Hervey Bay RSL Sub–Branch at: ( 07) 41977477, or www.herveybayrslsubbranch.com.au and they will help you.

The tradition still stays the same in 2010. Although not having to do all the cooking themselves, the ladies still serve the Service and Ex-service population of Hervey Bay and surrounding areas. Now-a-days we cater for approx 1000 meals for breakfast and lunch.

Now in their 81st year, the Ladies are still going strong raising funds for the community of the Bay and supporting the Sub-branch veteran community. The methods may have changed such as raffles, tombolas and many other fund raising events. The number of members has also increased from 16 in 1929 to 44 in 2010.
The Auxiliary now hope to recruit younger women to carry on the work of the Auxiliary.

Meetings are held in the RSL Memorial Club on the second Tuesday of the month at 10.30am.
Wives/Partners, Sisters, Mothers, Daughters, Grand-Mothers, Grand-daughters of Service, Ex-service or Allied Service personal or any woman who would like some company and friendship are able to join the Women’s Auxiliary.

We hold monthly bus trips, lunches and friendly get-togethers. Craft ladies can help with prizes for Tombolas and raffles. All profits go towards good causes or to help the Sub-branch and the veteran community.

If any Ladies would like more information they can contact the Sub-branch Office on ph 41977477 or Jenny Beattie ph 41253927. They will be made very welcome at our monthly meetings.
Jenny Beattie
President
RSL Women’s Auxiliary Hervey Bay.