2008 sees the Legacy Club of Brisbane (Brisbane Legacy) celebrating its
eightieth birthday. Brisbane Legacy has its origins in a national movement to
provide support to ex-servicemen and to the widows and children of those who
died while on active service during the Great War, as it was called in the
1920s.
The Club has existed continuously since its inception ten years after the end
of the Great War of 1914-1918, providing support for only for those whom the
Club was originally formed, but extending its services to the widows and
dependents of serviemen and women who served on active service in the Australian
Defence Force in later wars and those who have served with Australia's allies in
those conflict.
'Eighty Years of Service' is a record of the outstanding work done by
Brisbane Legacy since 1928. Legacy's work that is still ongoing, caring for an
extended Legacy family. Amply illustrated, the book has been written by a long
serving Legatee, Brian Avery, a retired Lieutenant-Colonel, and author of
several books on Australian military history.
Contents:
'In Flanders Fields', The Legacy Ode, the Charter of Legacy
Foreword
Introduction
1. Origins of the Legacy Movement
2. Legacy Extends to Brisbane - the First Year
3. The Depression Years - 1928 to 1933
4. Prelude to the Second World War
5. Coming of the Second World War
6. Transition to Peace and the Occupation of Moorlands
7. The Third Decade - 1948 to 1958
8. Three Decades of Evolution - 1960 to 1990
9. Mary Street and Post-Vietnam
10. The Shift to Merivale Street
11. Looking Ahead
Appendix A. Presidents of Brisbane Legacy
Appendix B. Selected Statistics
Index
