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Old 17th Jan 2009, 01:24
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Hi Brian A. You're mixing up NBW with Nancy Leebold which latter lady did the Morse on that 78 LP. teresa g. - NBW was not so much an advocate and fund raiser for RFDS as for the NSW Air Ambulance, through the sixties in particular. That aspect of her life is in Ted Docker's history of the NSW Air Ambulance, 'Clear the Runway', which book Nancy commissioned.

It's funny that the media should keep saying she was a pupil of Smithy's, when in fact her instructor was OB (Pat) Hall, as NBW so graphically recounts in 'Born To Fly'.

No connection between her late husband Charles and the late Vic Walton, incidentally.

RIP old girl, old pal.
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