Wednesday luncheon with Jane Lomax-Smith

This week's lunch meeting is held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the...

Adelaide Oval, Premiership Suite, Level 3, Southern Grandstand, War Memorial Drive North Adelaide.

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Guest Speaker: Jane Lomax-Smith

Remembrance Day - Centenary of Armistice

"Dernancourt Remembers, but Adelaide Forgets"

Jane, as a clinical pathologist, has worked in London, Boston and Adelaide. In Adelaide, she has been elected three times as a councillor, twice as Lord Mayor, twice as a state MP and was the Minister of Education and Tourism in the Rann government. She became aware of the relationship between Adelaide and Dernancourt while a Minister and researched and developed the connection during the following years.

Adelaide and the small French village of Dernancourt in the Valle de Somme / Ancre have a close connection dating back 100 years. That relationship was formed in much the same way as the more well-known connection between Robinvale (Vic) and Villers-Bretonneux to the SW of Dernancourt. The citizens of Adelaide contributed to a reconstruction fund that re-built the village following the ravages of The Great War. While Adelaide seems to have forgotten the relationship, the people of Dernancourt in France have not. Since her time as Lord Mayor, Jane Lomax-Smith has done much to re-kindle this now almost-forgotten connection and suggests that Adelaide remembers too. In this the Centenary Year of the end of the Great War, which so marked communities both here and in France, let's pause to reflect on a special bond which spans the globe between Adelaide and a small rural village in northern France.

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