This would have been taken in the 1940's. Val was being acknowledged for his relationship with the Australian Natives Association which became know as Australian Unity.
Val's full name was Horace Bernard Valentine Dimelow but he was called Val. His parents were Thomas and Margaret (Iles) Dimelow. Val was born in 1897. He was a solicitor. His last firm (from 1951 to 1984) was called HBV Dimelow & Co. He married Enid Claire Blyth (married on October 1, 1924 in Kilda) who died in 1948 (1996 - 1948) and then Norma Betty Taylor-Young who was my mother. I think they married in 1950 (1950 in Toorak, Victoria). Betty worked for Val as a bookkeeper before their marriage. He had two children me, Janet, and Mark (deceased). From 1951 on he lived at 284 Williams Road, Toorak, from 1957 at 9 Moonga Road, Toorak and from 1973 at 14A Yarradale Road Toorak. He died in 1987.
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