Bungendore Red Cross Branch Efforts, WW1 and WW2
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Bungendore Red Cross branch Efforts, WW1 and WW2 Compiled by Sandra Young, 2014 Photos by Sandra Young (Photo of a WW1 era magazine cover) Bungendore Red Cross Society (Goulburn Evening Penny Post 10/9/1914 page 4) Several meetings of the Red Cross Society have been held in Bungendore, Mrs. Foster Rutledge presiding. £10 was collected to buy material, and 19 bags filled with comforts for the sick and wounded in the war have been sent to Headquarters. On Saturday at the meeting further subscriptions were promised, and Mrs. Rutledge, Miss Powell, Mrs. T. Gordon, and other ladies gave individual bags. Many willing workers are busy making garments. Bungendore Red Cross Society (The Queanbeyan Age 10/11/1914 page 2) The president of the above Society, Mrs. W. F. Rutledge, who was ever ready to help any deserving cause, has promoted a ball to augment the funds of the Bungendore branch of the Red Cross Society. Friday, November 27th, is the date selected for holding the function, and as the price of tickets is very reasonable, we know the Bungendore folk will, as is usually the case with them, patronise the ball and make it a pronounced success. Particulars are advertised. Bungendore Red Cross Society. (The Queanbeyan Age 13/11/1914 page 5) Bungendore Red Cross Society. A BALL Will be held in aid of the above in the Federal Hall, Bungendore. On Friday, November 27th. Double Tickets 5s, Single 3s. Mrs. Rutledge, President Bungendore Branch. Bungendore Red Cross Society (The Queanbeyan Age 19/10/1915 page 2) A Red Cross meeting of ladies under the presidency of Mrs. W. F. Rutledge, held last week decided to send parcels of Xmas cheer to the boys of the 6th and 7th Light Horse Regiments at Gallipoli. Great enthusiasm was shown in the movement, in which Mrs. Rutledge is deeply interested, and she will be pleased to receive at the Church of England schoolroom any donation, such as cakes, puddings, sweets, tobacco, cigarettes, khaki handkerchiefs, writing material, etc., and will have them packed and sent on in time for Xmas. Miss Holdship, an earnest worker from Sydney Red Cross Society, was present, and gave some useful information as to the mode of packing and forwarding the parcels, etc. The members were entertained by Mrs. Rutledge at afternoon tea before parting. There has been a liberal response, and when the billys and tins are opened by the soldiers will be a pleasurable surprise to them, and prove that their countrymen are not unmindful of them, and that they appreciate “our boys at the front.” Patriotic Funds Red Cross (The Sydney Morning Herald 8/6/1917 page 9) The honorary treasurer of the Red Cross Society, New South Wales Division (Mr. Wilfrid Docker), Norwich Chambers, Hunter St., Sydney, announces the receipt of the following donations: Amount previously acknowledged, £177, 231/3/4; further proceeds of Allied bazaar, Coliseum, Chicago, January 11-20, 1917, final remittance, £136/10/3; payment on account of Rabbit Day, £5/3; Armidale Red Cross Society, on account French Red Cross Hospitals, £50; Armidale Red Cross Society, on account prisoners of war, £58/2/6; Tumut Red Cross Society, £25; Sir William Cooper, on account taxi money, £2/10/-; Muswellbrook Red Cross Society, £100; Moonan Flats Red Cross Society, £3/4/-; Dapto Red Cross Society, £20; spinning sales, £5/1/1; proceeds concert, Sonoma (Master Cecil Parkes), £2/3/6; Winn and Co., exchange on cheques, £5; Cryon Sports Club, £15; Tuncester Red Cross Society, £20; Knitting Book, per Miss Monie, £3/2/6; refund of petty cash, wool (Mrs. McKinnon), £2; employees Nock and Kirby, Ltd., £5/16/11; Old Linen Depot, sale of muslin, sale of cases, £4/9/6; children of Empire Bay public school, £2/0/6; Thuddungra Circle, on account hospital suite, £10/3/6; Dorrigo District Patriotic Fund, £50; spinning industry, £3/19/6; Knitting book, £2/17/6; Sweeney Bros., per Scone branch Red Cross Society, £5/5/-; Grafton branch, on account 3 beds and furnishing, Red Cross Sanitarium Wentworth Falls, £30; Mrs. A. Hordern, on account of taxi money, £2/10/-; Oaklands branch Red Cross Society, £5; Eugowra branch, £30; Guyra branch Red Cross society, £2; Rylstone Freezing Company, on account Rabbit Day, £9; Mrs. E. L. Johnson, £2; Coonamble branch Red Cross Society, £10; Mrs. Drummond, on account prisoners of war, £3/3/-; Wenz and Co., £10; Old Linen Depot, sale of rags, £4/0/6; Repton Patriotic Association, £4/16/5; Jiggi Wattle branch, on account hospitals abroad, £50; Tingha branch, on account prisoners of war, £7/10/-; Lady Fairfax, on account taxi money, £2/10/-; Wardell branch Red Cross Society, £5; Kiama branch Red Cross Society, on account hire Red Cross Society films, £2; Bosch, Barthel, and Co., £50; Websdale, Shoesmith, and Co., £5; kitchen sales, £4/19/11; Bangalow branch, on account butter kitchen, £3; collected at Anzac service held by Reverend J. J. Rapkins, in Presbyterian Church, £3/3/6; Hugh Roxburgh, £5; Anon, £10; Winn and Co., Exchange cheques, £2; cash and credit sales material, £513/6/4; Red Cross Record, per Miss Monie, £12/10/6; badges, £4/13/1; tobacco, per Miss Higman, £24/9/6; toy sales, £16/11/9; Chas. E. Hood, for French Red Cross, £5; for British Red Cross £5, for Belgian Red Cross, £5, for general £5; sock measure, per Miss Monie, £3/6/-; Red Cross kitchen sales, £4/2/4; ditto; ditto, £5/17/8; Lake Cowal branch Red Cross Society, £50; Bulli branch Red Cross Society, £9; sale of papers, Book Depot, £8/14/6; Red Cross Knitting Book, £5/0/8; Spinning Industry, £22/18/7; Pambula branch Red Cross Society, on account field ambulance at the front, £20; Willow Tree branch, on account prisoners of war, £5; ditto, on account French Red Cross , £10; Merriwa branch, on account Fruit and Vegetable Depot, £5; ShoalHaven district, Nowra, ditto, ditto, £20; Toronto Red Cross Society, £2/2-; employees, 22 Hunter Street, on account fruit and vegetables, £3; Miss Peacock, Roycroft Library, proceeds sale of mascots (Miss Hill), £21/12/-; Burrogrins branch Red Cross Society, £12/0/6; Marie Morris, on account 3371, Private N. S. Morris, 55th Battalion, for period of two months, £3; Mrs. M. Austin, on account of No 3230, Corporal M. J. D. Austin, 55th Battalion, £4; Mrs. White on account taxi money, £5; Mrs. S. Hordern, ditto, £2/10/-; employees Lackersteen and Co., £10/16/3; Moonan Flat Red Cross branch (proceeds euchre party), £6/7/5; Shepardstown branch Red Cross Society, £10; Central Tilba Red Cross Society, £10; Nubba Patriotic Society (proceeds of gift sale and half proceeds of social), £44/12/1; members of Ocean Island Voluntary Recreation Club, (profits made on canteen of club year ended February, 1917) £10; spinning industry, £44/16/1; F.W. Learoyd, £5; Websdale, Shoosmith, Ltd., £5; Winn and Co., exchange cheques, £4; Parkes branch Red Cross Society, for prisoners of war, £25; Rous Mill-Dalwood Red Cross Society, £5; spinning sales £30/15/-; Wardell branch Red Cross Society, £10; Tilba Tilba branch Red Cross Society, £10; Winn and Co., exchange cheques, £4; cash and credit sales, material, £463/10/3; Red Cross Record, per Miss Monie, £15/13/6; badges, £19/15/9; tobacco, £4/18/-; toy sales, £237/0/4; Mrs. A. Lorner, £2/2/-; proceeds of bazaar organised by Misses Marjorie Rogers, V. Ellershaw, and Nellie Clelland, £65; Bena branch Red Cross Society, £30; Saturday voluntary workers, £2/13/6; kitchen sales, £3/13/10; do (same)., do (same)., £4/9/10; donation from the kitchen, £2/7/-; Lismore branch of Red Cross for Leura Consumptive Home, recreation room, £200; Book Depot, sale of papers, £5/9/6; Willoughby branch of Red Cross Society, for prisoners of war, £4; Bena branch Red Cross Society, for Australian hospital in France, £20; Miss M. Marr, result of child’s play and raffle of doll, £3/0/3; Bimbi branch Red Cross Society, for prisoners of war, £25; Australia Day account, 80 per cent of wages , month of May, £105/5/7; Bungendore branch Red Cross Society, for prisoners of war, £5; Brewarrina branch Red Cross Society, £75; Department of Public Instruction, £6/13/6; employees Windy Station, £4/7/-; Allied Bazaar, Chicago, further proceeds for Australian branch, £91/5/9; Guyra branch Red Cross Society, monthly donation, £2; spinning sales, £56/6/6; Raine and Horne for William Cooper, £2/10/-; 20th Battalion Comforts Fund, for prisoners of war, £2/15/-; Old Linen Depot, sales, £4/5/11; Strand Movies, for hire of film, £10/7/-; Nowra Red Cross for film and posters, £2/4/-; Woodford Red Cross, balance of membership fees in hand, £2/1/-; Kangaroo Red Cross for endowment Mill House bed, £3; Miss Ruth White for taxi, £5; Wellington branch Red Cross Society, £9/15/10; South Bowenfels Red Cross Society, £7/9/1; Portland branch Red Cross Society, for comforts for hospitals, £10; spinning sales, £30/5/10; cash credit sales, material, £393/11/10; Red Cross Record per Miss Monie £8/18/-; badges £6/1/6; toy sales, £10/19/11; making with other amounts, a total of £185,416/16/4. Red Cross general expenditure to June 7, £168,977/2/1. Australia Day general expenditure to the same date, £290,350/2/5: Total £454,336/4/6. (Note: Some of the figures in the above article are somewhat blurred, so please check this article with an original copy, using Trove or microfiche copies of this article.