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The Clan MacRae Society’s very capable Honorary Treasurer, Maxwell Browning, was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia. The honour was announced in the Northern Daily Leader newspaper on Australia Day 26th January, 2012.
He was an employee at Armidale’s WHK Cameron’s Chartered Accountants for 55 years from 1955, Mr Browning became a partner in the firm in 1969 and served as the company’s chief executive until his retirement in 2006.
2011 has been a busy year for the Clan MacRae Society of Australia and New Zealand with many highlights, some sad losses and a number of firsts.
Early in the year the Society was blessed by the visit of our Scottish guests, Life President of the Clan MacRae Society in the U.K. and Scotland, Mrs Marigold MacRae and her daughter Baroness Miranda MacRae Van Lynden in March. Our Society held functions in Armidale, Katoomba and Bungendore and their presence was appreciated by all who attended.
This is a book you might enjoy reading. It can be ordered from any book shop in Australia from distributor Peribo.
Written by John Rowland DSO, DFC Squadron Leader.
To read John is a pleasure and he is a wonderful story teller.
John flew Hectors, Halifax, and Lancasters. His first flight was in 1940 over Dunkirk. Quite a few Australians flew in his squadron helping in the great struggle.
I travelled to Sydney with our President Alan McRae to attend our regular quarterly Clan MacRae meeting held in Sydney at the home of Sue Catterall, in the lovely suburb of Wahroonga on Wednesday 16th November 2011
This photo was taken in either 1944 or 1945 during World War II when Gordon McRae was serving in the Australian Army Pay Corps. Gordon was visiting his sister Jean McRae who resided at Roseville in Sydney at the time.
Gordon Russell McRae was the youngest of five children of Alice and Francis Lewin Duncan McRae. Born on Thursday, 11th November, 1920, in the Walcha Hospital on the New England tablelands in northern New South Wales he was to be the last of the McRae children. Ironically, Gordon was born on Armistice Day, just two years after the First World War finished.
As the voyage unfolded many things happened and some of the older folk were sick and some died. It was in these cases the girls were used to great advantage.
The first time they were asked to help was when an old man who had befriended the girls and made sure they were fed and bedded in a suitable way and had stood up for them during arguments. He even became embroiled in fights when some of the passengers tried to move the girls on when the ship arrived in various ports for food and water.
Now Mr. McCauley was in need of their care.
The journey was almost over when Mr Lynch who had become like a father to the Angles since Arnold had died, announced he would hand the girls over the a group of Irish folk who settled people like them in the first few weeks until they decided what was to become them.
From Ireland
Chapter 1
R E MacRae 07.07.07
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Julia is a very beautiful, not pretty girl much like he mother’s family the Mc Cloud’s from Elsternwick in Melbourne. She had thick dark brown hair and a noble nose, average height and a delightful figure considering her 4 children. Julia the eldest girl was always on my side and took care of me.
Now Dad what is this all about?
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