by AWWNSW | Aug 25, 2022 | Important Updates
We are honoured to have join with the NSW Government and our Patron the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC Governor, in announcing that the 19th of October will now be known as War Widows’ Day in NSW. At the Premier’s Vietnam Veterans’ Day reception, War...
by War Widows | Oct 19, 2021 | eNewsletters, Important Updates
Today, on Founders Day, we remember and celebrate our founder Mrs Jessie Mary Vasey OBE CBE, born in Roma, Queensland on 19 October 1897. Born Jessie Mary Halbert, Jessie was the eldest of three girls, daughter of a Queensland grazier, and a university graduate with...
by War Widows | Jun 2, 2021 | Important Updates
AWW NSW celebrates 75 years. I want to tell you a story. A story of one woman who stood tall, who stood up for what she believed in, who devoted her life to service and empowering others. A woman who had a unique ability to tell it like it was, to inspire activity,...