Mr Godfrey (Rusty) Priest AM. (Deputy Chair)

Mr Rusty Priest was State President of the Returned and Services League of Australia (New South Wales Branch). Rusty enlisted in the 2nd AIF in June 1945. He served in Japan with the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces from April 1946 to December 1948, in the Australian Regular Army from 1946 to 1967 and the Emergency Reserve until 1975. Upon resigning from the Army, Rusty took a management position at the University of Sydney where he remained until retirement in 1990. He is extensively involved in all matters which affect the welfare of veterans and their dependants. Rusty Priest was elected State President of the RSL (NSW Branch) in May 1993 and Deputy National President of the RSL in September 1997. Mr Rusty Priest is Deputy Chairman of the ANZAC Health & Medical Research Foundation and its Executive Board.

Rusty adores his daughter to bits. And helps her all he can.

We wish him well with his health.

Go Rusty !