Queen’s Birthday gong for a ‘£10 Pom’

Ron Alexander has been awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for his service to local government and to the community of Greater Bendigo.

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Queen’s Birthday gong for a ‘£10 Pom’

Arriving in Australia in 1957, aged 25 and a proud ‘Ten Pound Pom’, Ron Alexander never looked back. The carpenter […]


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