Party: Returned Services League of Australia - Townsville
Summary
RETURNED SERVICES LEAGUE OF AUSTRALIA, 139 CHARTERS TOWERS ROAD, Townsville, 4810.
Some records destroyed for security reasons, 1941-42.
Membership records. 1946-present, approximately 8,000 card entries.
Minutes, monthly, annual and committee meetings. 1946-present, 14 volumes.
Minutes of meetings, Townsville and District Gallipoli Legion of Anzac. Membership rolls and associated papers, 19 folders.
Correspondence files. 1946-present.
Business records. 1944-present, 45 volumes.
Townsville Patriotic Fund. With subscription register, committee rolls and explanatory text, June 1940-August 1957, 1 volume.
Newspaper collection. Copies and extracts regarding 1914-18 and 1939-45 wars; mainly Townsville Evening Star and Townsville Daily Bulletin, (frail).
Miscellaneous collection. Brochures, discharge papers, leave passes, certificates of promotion, propaganda literature, service memoirs etc., regarding Australian defence forces, spanning from local cadet corps formed prior to the first World War to the Vietnam war.
Photographs. Portraits, groups, regarding Australians in France, 1914-18 and the Middle East, 1939-45; Victory Parade, Townsville, 11 November 1918, 5 prints; groups and individuals, Townsville R.S.L., including the 15 member Gallipoli Legion, 1971, albums and single prints.
Honour Rolls. Townsville servicemen of 1914-18 war; Australian Estates Co. LTD, staff who enlisted in 1939-45 war, includes a portrait panel, framed. First tunnelling company, A.I.F. 1914-18 war, who served in Europe including a significant component of men from central and northern Queensland mining communities, 1 board.