The next meeting of the Society will be held at the Imperial Hotel on Tuesday 18th April at 5.30pm The speaker will be Barry Dawson, President of the Armidale and District National Service Association Sub Branch, who compiled the recently-published book Nashos – in War and Peace. This book documents the lives of men from the New England who, at 20 years of age were required to register for National Service and were conscripted to serve for 5 years in the Regular Army by means of ‘Birthday Ballott’. They became known as became as ‘Nashos’ and served both at home and abroad and in the Vietnam War. This form of conscription ceased in 1972 after the Vietnam War.

The April newsletter is now available: