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ASHE RUPERT CHARITY COLLECTOR

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1991

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Colour print. Rupert Ashe sitting in front of lattice screen with Royal AgricultureSociety prize ribbon across the top, and two framed art exhibits underneath. One has a blue first prize certificate attached and the other a red second prize certificate. Printed on ribbon [ THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA (INC) / 1991 PERTH ROYAL SHOW / MOST SUCCESSFUL EXHIBITOR MANUALLY HANDICAPPED EXHIBITORS ]

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Rupert Ashe was born in Katanning in 1921 and moved to Perth in 1928. He later lived at Alfred Carson Nursing Home in Bay Road Claremont and, although confined to a wheel chair suffering from 'spastic paralysis', he was seen in Bay View Terrace every Friday for some 25 years, collecting for charity . He was voted Claremont Citizen of the Year in 1980.

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