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Brighton, Vic. 5 July 1919. Senator E D Millen, Minister for Repatriation, makes his address at the official opening of Anzac Hostel. The Hostel was established to provide a home for totally and permanently incapacitated men whose disability was due to war service and who required nursing care but no active medical or surgical treatment. Included in this photograph are: Mr Greenwood, Chairman of the Victorian (Honorary) State Board; the Honourable J A Boyd, Member of Parliament; Mr (later Sir) Robert Gibson, Deputy Chairman of the first (Honorary) Repatriation Commission; Sir Arthur Stanley, State Governor; Senator E D Millen, Minister for Repatriation; Major J E Barrett, Inspector; General (later Sir) George Cuscaden, Director General Australian Army Medical Service; Dr J F Agnew, First Principal Medical Officer of the Repatriation Department; and Colonel J M Semmens VD, Member of the First Repatriation Commission (Honorary). (Donor Repatriation Commission, Melbourne)(see also P0158/43/40 and H12885)
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