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2 unusual facts about Thelma Bate


Thelma Bate

She married grazier Richard Falkner Harvey on 20 June 1934 at St Philip's Church of England in Sydney and settled on his property near Ivanhoe, where she joined the Country Women's Association.

She represented New South Wales at the Associated Country Women of the World conference in Toronto in 1953, and continued to be active in the community.


Bate family

Jeff Bate's second wife, Thelma Florence Bate CBE, (3 August 1904 – 26 July 1984) was an Australian community leader and women's activist.


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