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The album was created for Mrs Jill Cook, a founder of the club. It contains messages from members of the Club and photographs of members and their children and husbands. It also lists their former home and when they arrived in New Zealand

The Overseas Ladies Club was formed in Palmerston North in 1947. It acted as a support group for the wives of returned servicemen who came to Palmerston North after WWII. The women met monthly and shared activities until 1982.

Identification

Object type
Multi-Page Document
Archive
Overseas Ladies Club
Relation
CA: Overseas Ladies Club
Date
circa 1950 to circa 1959
Digitisation ID
2018A_OverseasLadiesClubS7V1_024694
Format
Other
Held In
Community Archives

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Place
Palmerston North

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Taxonomy

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overseas ladies club,
photograph album,
war brides,
world war two,
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"U.S. Marine" [War brides]
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