New York, USA. An American hospitality centre for Australian and New Zealand forces was the Anzac ...

Place North & Central America: United States of America, New York
Accession Number 106125
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

New York, USA. An American hospitality centre for Australian and New Zealand forces was the Anzac Club. Founder and President of the club was Miss Nola Luxford. Shown, a group at a welcome party held at the Henry Hudson Hotel in New York to welcome 700 Forester members passing through en route from England to Australia. Left to right: Colonel C. R. Cole; Lieutenant General V. A. H. Sturdee; Miss Nola Luxford; Major Courtney Briggs, NZ; Major Frazer Campbell, and Major G. W. Griffith, US.