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Parkside Football Club 1897/2017

Dark clouds began to rapidly gather over a troubled world, In 1939,

On 3 September 1939 Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies announced the beginning of
Australia's involvement in the Second World War on every national and commercial radio station in
Australia.

Small arms ammunition factory, Footscray, Victoria 1939

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The Argus, Melbourne wrote in June 1940,

FOOTSCRAY RALLY

“Cr. C. A. Beever, Mayor of Footscray, Is organising a big recruiting rally on Footscray Oval, the date
for which has been fixed tentatively for Sunday, July 14 is proposed that the whole of Footscray's war
effort shall be illustrated by "strong posts" of Red Cross and other workers, and the local air raids
precautions organisation, and that a detachment of the A.I.F., bands, and Boy

Scouts will take part.”

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30,000 Expected

“Six bands and representatives of all the fighting services will take part in a great win-the-war rally
which will take place on the Western oval, Footscray, at 3 pm tomorrow.

Once a Parksider, Always a Parksider