Thursday, 19 February 2026

Stories of Drouin

In 1941, as the Second World War ground on, Drouin residents decided to buy a Spitfire plane to support the war effort. They raised £6607 14s 4d (roughly equivalent to $530,000 today), out of which the Australian Government paid £5000 for...

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Stories of Drouin
Front, from left, interviewees Graham Kraft, Dora Scales, Iris Maxfield, Margaret Jackson and Keith Pretty. Back: MC Keith Cook (president of the Committee for Drouin), interviewer Rosemary Blackley, Gwen Mulconry (representing interviewee Rod McNab, Murray Goudie (interviewee), Judy Farmer (project co-ordinator and interviewer), Lynn Wells (interviewer and editor) and Brian Milner (interviewee).

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