(From Our Own Correspondent)
Mr. Charles Green of Lilydale, who was one of the outstanding personalities in the Salvation Army in Northern Tasmania, died in Launceston on Sunday. He has been connected with the Salvation Army for over 60 years as he joined up in England, and could tell many interesting stories of the rough treatment received from crowds in the early days of the movement.
Mr. Green was born at Salisbury in England in 1864, and came to Tasmania when he was 20 years of age, and worked in a sawmill owned by Messrs J. and T. Gunn Pty. Ltd. Later on he settled at Lilydale where he engaged in market gardening.
For the past 55 years he has been a member of the Lilydale Salvation Army Band. He could play any brass instrument, the organ, piano and plano-accordeon, and regularly accompanied the Salvation Army when they went round carol singing on Christmas mornings. His wife died 4 years ago, and he leaves a family of three sons and daughters, Mesdames J. Davidson (Melbourne), C. Hayes (Launceston), M. McClymont (Sydney); Charles (Fiji), Henry (Lilydale) and Albert (Westbury).
Mr. Green was the first bandmaster of the Salvation Army in Launceston.
SHOW AND SPORTS TO BE HELD
A Show and Sports will be held at Lilydale early in March, 1944, the proceeds to go to the various patriotic Funds. This was decided at a large and representative meeting held on the 9th instant, a committee of men was appointed to arrange the sports, with Mr. J. A. Owens as sec retary. The details of the show were left in the hands of members of the Red Cross branch to arrange.
PERSONAL
Sgt. Mary D. Weston, of the W.A.A.A.F., who is stationed on the Mainland, is spending a short leave with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. D Weston, Lilydale. Sgt. Weston was formerly a member of the staff of the Lilydale Municipal Council, and has a large circle of friends in the district.LILYDALE (1943, November 12). North-Eastern Advertiser (Scottsdale, Tas. : 1909 - 1954), p. 2. Retrieved April 8, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article151477524
See also in following article report on Ken Pinner in New Guinea and his uncle Aub Pinner, POW in Java. Somerville family is also mentioned.
Pte. Ken Pinner, in a letter from New Guinea to his aunt at Scottsdale, Mrs. Aub Pinner, states that after being in Hospital with malaria, he attended a concert and got a surprise to find himself sitting alongside two Scottsdale girls — Betty Loosmore and Lily Kilworth. And did they get on with the talking? Pte. Pinner wrote after receiving an "Advertiser" containing the report that his uncle, Pte. Aub Pinner, was a prisoner of war in Java.
ABOUT PEOPLE (1943, November 12). North-Eastern Advertiser (Scottsdale, Tas. : 1909 - 1954), p. 2. Retrieved April 8, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article151477523