Repatriation General Hospital Heidelberg Graduates Association

13/08/2026

So far we have had a great response for the final reunion dinner with quite a lot of past graduates booking in. Don't forget to get your replies in as late notification will not be possible with this venue, and I need to know how big a cake we need to order!

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01/08/2026

Lovely turn out today at the Colour Patch Museum tour at the old Repat. Many thanks to Robert Winther again for your entertaining tour. Great to see some new faces. Love all the history.

29/07/2026

If anyone is working at the Austin or the Repat still could they possibly print the invitation to the reunion dinner and post it up? Also it's definitely on Friday 16th October if anyone got an email with a typo.

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28/07/2026

Dear Graduates and Friends of HGA, today I have emailed out the invitations to the 55th and Final Reunion Dinner for HGA, to be held on Friday 16th Oct 2026 at the Heidelberg Golf Club. Many emails have bounced back. Please share with other past graduates that might be interested.
Regards
Therese Hume
HFA secretary

28/07/2026

Dear Graduates and Friends of HGA, today I have emailed out the invitations to the 55th and Final Reunion Dinner to be held on Friday 16th Oct 2026 at the Heidelberg Golf Club. Many emails are bouncing back so I will post the invitation here for those who have FB. Please share with other past graduates that might be interested.

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28/07/2026

🌹VALE: We have been informed of the passing of Steve Scott on July 14th 2026, he was 74 yrs and 11 mths. His funeral was held on the 23rd July. Steve worked in ICU at the Repat. He was very active in his commitments involved in three orchestras and The Men's Shed in Yackandandah. Many Nurses from Albury/Wodonga Intensive Care attended his funeral where Steve worked as a peer and mentor. Steve's wife, many of you may remember ,Pauline Cann, worked at the Repat Intensive care in the 1980's.

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25/07/2026

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ANZAC Girls' – Australian and New Zealand nurses at war
The Discovering Anzacs site at the National Archives of Australia hosts "group stories" which explore ANZAC lives through compelling primary sources. This collection features profiles, photos, official records and other papers belonging to ANZAC nurses, including the six women who inspired the ABC TV series "Anzac Girls". This is a wonderful resource for researching inquiries into Australian women's experience of the First World War.
The actual records that document the service of these courageous women: Matron Grace Wilson, Sister Alice Ross King, Sister Olive Haynes, Sister Elsie Cook, and Sister Hilda Steele. These are just a few of the several thousand nurses who served with Australian and New Zealand forces during World War I. About 2,500 Australian nurses served overseas with the Australian Army Nursing Service, and about 720 more nurses and masseuses joined other allied services. Twenty-eight nurses died. From New Zealand about 610 nurses served overseas with the New Zealand Army Nursing Service, and about 100 with allied services. Sixteen died. They served in all theatres of war in locations as diverse as Egypt, Greece, India, France, Belgium and England. They worked not only in base hospitals but on ships, trains and in casualty clearance stations close to the front line.

22/07/2026

It's just over a week and a half until our Old Repat Museum Tour on the 1st August 10.30 am 2026 at the "Colour Patch" museum in the old kitchen at the Repat campus.
For those of you attending here is the map of where to go to. Come through the Waterdale Road entrance, take a ticket at the boom gate and park in the Ash Grove car park. Robert will provide an exit pass. Lunch will follow at the RSL on Bell across the road for those wanting to go. It's not too late to put your name down.

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22/07/2026

Vale: 🌹Dear Graduates , we have been notified that Alan McManus has passed away 19-7-26, aged 82 years. Alan was in group 2/76, he received the third year student nurse award. He did his oncology training at Royal Marsden, nursed in Saudi Arabia as charge nurse on Oncology before returning to Australia. Before retiring he worked on Oncology at Box Hill and then in the oncology research department. Alan did not want a funeral.

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10/07/2026

Updated HGA Committee Virtual Honour Board