Major-General H. Gordon Bennett has been appointed Officer Commanding the Returned Soldiers' League Volunteer Defence Corps in New South ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 19 Jun 1940, Page 12
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