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New entries September & October 2025

Monday 3 November 2025

The following entries were published during September and October 2025:

Adams, Bronwyn Jane (1950–1999) chemical engineer, university manager and consultant

Bachli, Douglas William (Doug) (1922–2000) champion amateur golfer

Barnes, George Victor (1927–2000) boxer and businessman

Bray, Sir Theodor Charles (1905–2000) journalist, editor and university founder

Brodie, Veronica (1941–2007) Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri community leader and activist

Carr, Ivo David (David) (1926–1999) city planner

Chater, Gordon Maitland (1922–1999) actor

Eagleton, William Edmund (Ted) (1917–2000) air force officer, personnel manager and war veterans’ advocate

Elliott, Wilhelmina (Sister Mary Fabian) (1911–1998) nurse, hospital administrator and religious sister

Hart, Arthur Maxwell (Max) (1916–2000) educationist and missionary

Houng On Yee, Myrtle (1914–1997) businesswoman

Jecks, Douglas Alan (1928–1999) educationalist and university vice-chancellor

Kennedy, William (Hal) (1911–2000) showman, bandleader, and dance promoter

Lenoir, Dominique Claude Lucien (1932–1999) company director and French foreign trade advisor

Pollard, Alfred Hurlstone (Alf) (1916–2000) actuary, businessman and professor of actuarial science

Rowell, Kenneth Leslie (1920–1999) artist and stage designer

Stanley, Muriel Conomie (1918–1979) obstetric nurse and welfare worker

Thompson, Edna Mary (Digger) (1914–1996) public servant