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On this day fifty years ago, December 19, 1967, it was announced that the then-Prime Minister of Australia, Harold Holt, was officially presumed dead. Mr. Holt, who had been Prime Minister for 22 months, from January 1966, had disappeared two days earlier while swimming in the ocean at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, in the state of Victoria.His body was never found, despite a three-week search.


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Holt and his wife Zara were neighbours after buying a renovated service building on one of eight lots when the Gillespies subdivided their Weeroona Ave property in 1961. Harold Holt was often seen.


Harold Holt, the poet and 'the bastard from Bingil Bay' How reef conservation began ABC News

October 30, 2012. Died peacefully. Adored mother of Wayne (decd), Sheriden (decd) and Vyner. Loved mother-in-law of Kerry and John. Loving grandmother of Alexis, husband Ben and great-granddaughters Stella and Pippa. Privately Cremated.


Issue 2 Feb 1966 The Australian Women's Week...then Prime Minister Harold Holt with his

Harold Edward Holt CH (5 August 1908 - 17 December 1967) was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 17th prime minister of Australia from 1966 until his disappearance and presumed death in 1967. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia .


Australian prime minister Harold Holt with his wife Zara and their... News Photo Getty Images

Dame Zara Kate Bate DBE ( née Dickins; previously Fell and Holt; 10 March 1909 - 14 June 1989) was an Australian fashion entrepreneur. She was best known as the wife of Harold Holt, who was prime minister of Australia from 1966 until his disappearance in 1967. Early life


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Sat 16 Dec 2017 18.28 EST I t was a quintessential Australian death. On 17 December 1967, Australia's 17th prime minister, Harold Edward Holt, waded into the churning surf at Victoria's Cheviot.


The Harold Holt Mystery (1985) clip 3 on ASO Australia's audio and visual heritage online

Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared at Cheviot Beach, Victoria on 17 December 1967. No trace of him was ever found and the case remains one of Australia's greatest mysteries. How could the leader of the country simply vanish while still in office?


Harold Holt, the poet and 'the bastard from Bingil Bay' How reef conservation began ABC News

As a 'political wife', Zara Holt brought a valuable dowry to her marriage to Harold Edward Holt. For 20 years before he became Prime Minister, her charm, candour and business connections fuelled his political career.


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News National Fifty years on, Harold Holt's family remember 'genuine humanitarian' and loving father By Jonathan Kearsley • US Correspondent 8:42am Dec 17, 2017 Today marks 50 years since Harold Holt vanished. It was a day at the beach that ended in tragedy.


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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dame Zara Kate Bate DBE ( née Dickins; previously Fell and Holt; 10 March 1909 - 14 June 1989) was an Australian fashion entrepreneur. She was best known as the wife of Harold Holt, who was prime minister of Australia from 1966 until his disappearance in 1967. Oops something went wrong: 403


Prime Minister Harold Holt with American President Lyndon Johnson and the First Lady naa.gov.au

Dame Zara Kate Holt (1909-1989), fashion designer and businesswoman, was born on 10 March 1909 at Kew, Melbourne, younger daughter and second of four children of Victorian-born Sydney Herbert Dickins, merchant, and his wife Violet, née MacDonald, from Scotland. She was educated at home before attending Ruyton Girls' School, Kew (1919-24.


'President Johnson was in tears' remembering Harold Holt

VANISHED former prime minister Harold Holt could have been kidnapped by a Chinese submarine that was yellow but one thing we do know is that Marjorie Gillespie, his lover who was with him on a beach near Portsea, has died.


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Harold Holt is remembered more for his death than for his life. But he had a long and distinguished parliamentary career that culminated in January 1966 when he took over the prime ministership. He had been Robert Menzies's treasurer and became his anointed successor after sixteen years of conservative rule.. Holt and his wife Zara had a.


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Background Harold Holt became the 17th prime minister of Australia in January 1966, following the retirement of Sir Robert Menzies. Holt was a career politician, entering parliament at the age of 27 and becoming a government minister at the age of 31. [1]


Last man to see Harold Holt alive His love for mistress Marjorie Gillespie no fling Daily

42m Harold Holt went missing while swimming at Cheviot Beach in Portsea, Victoria. His body has never been found. abc.net.au/news/disappearance-harold-holt-inside-search-operation-australia/12817236 It was "like a leaf being taken out," lamented Marjorie Gillespie. "So quick and final."


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How did Harold Holt go missing? The Prime Minister of Australia from 1966-1967, Holt was an avid outdoorsman and loved to swim in the ocean near to where he lived Portsea, Victoria. On the morning of December 17, Holt woke up in Portsea, called his wife, and went to the store.

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