Northam RSL Sub Branch Committee
| President | Vice President | Secretary |
| Mrs Denette Bernard | Mr Lin Booth | Mr Stephen Dyer |
| 0472 681 578 | 0428 612 480 | 0428 130 244 |
| northam.president@sb.rslwa.org.au | northam.secretary@sb.rslwa.org.au | |
| Membership | Junior Vice President | Treasurer |
| Mrs Donna Prytulak OAM PHF | Mr Thomas Bennetts | Mr Geoff Scarterfield |
| 0409 290 972 | 9622 1676 | |
| northam.membership@sb.rslwa.org.au |
Northam RSL Sub Branch Wardens
| Mr Geoff Scarterfield | Mr James Simcock |
Please send all correspondence to PO Box 252, NORTHAM, WA 6401
President – Mrs Denette Bernard
Denette joined the army at the age of 21 when the Vietnam conflict was in full swing, and served for 4 and a half years.
She was discharged as a Senior NCO after marrying, as her husband was returning to WA to become a Police Officer and there were no vacancies in the West at that time and so she could not continue her career in the Army.
Vice President – Mr Lin Booth
Lin is ex RAAF and joined Bakers Hill RSL Sub Branch in 2008.
He has been a member of Northam RSL Sub Branch since 2022.
Junior Vice President – Mr Thomas Bennetts
Secretary – Mr Stephen Dyer
Steve – an ex-RN Submariner, emigrated to Australia in 1971.
He joined RSLWA in 1973 as a member at Bellevue RSL. He has been a member of Northam Sub branch for about four years.
Treasurer – Mr Geoff Scarterfield
Geoff was born and raised in Northam, and subsequently, educated at Northam Primary and then Northam Senior High School.
He completed two year’s National Service from April 1969 until April 1971 during which time he was a member of 4 platoon B Company of the Second Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment ( 2RAR ). He served in South Vietnam from May 1970 until February 1971 as a rifleman and the platoon medic, participating in all the battalion’s operations during this period.
Geoff joined the Northam RSL sub branch in 1986 and became the branch’s treasurer the following year and has remained in that position to the present. He was awarded Life Membership of the RSL in 2014.
Membership – Mrs Donna Prytulak OAM PHF
Northam-educated, Donna joined the Army Reserves in 1977. She became the first female to join 10th Light Horse in Northam. She served for 10 years before leaving as a full Corporal.
Living in Northam, she took the opportunity to help 5 Training Group at the Northam Army Camp.
She served as an Officer with the Australian Army Cadets for two years and chaperoned a group of three young cadets to India. While there, she met the then Prime Minister Mrs Indira Ghandi as well as the President of India.
Donna has been a member of the Sub Branch since 2006, past member of the RSL WA Board, past RSL WA Vice President, a past Northam RSL Sub Branch President. Currently Membership Officer.
Donna was award the Rotary Paul Harris Fellow a few years back and in 2020 Donna was awarded an OAM for her Veteran and their Families work and awarded a Life Membership for RSL.
Warden – Mr Geoff Scarterfield
Geoff was born and raised in Northam, and subsequently, educated at Northam Primary and then Northam Senior High School.
Geoff joined the Northam RSL sub branch in 1986 and became the branch’s treasurer the following year and has remained in that position to the present. He was awarded Life Membership of the RSL in 2014.
Warden – Mr James Simcock
Jim joined Army in 1958 and served Borneo, Malaya and Vietnam as a member of the SAS from 1962 to 1972.
He is an active member of the Sub Branch, which he joined in 1995.
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