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Biography: Luxford, Nola

Nola Luxford with New Zealand and Australian servicemen in a New York radio studio

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Nola Luxford with New Zealand and Australian servicemen in a New York radio studio

Actress and broadcaster Nola Luxford founded the Anzac Club in New York in 1940 to provide a home away from home for New Zealand and Australian service personnel on leave there.

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Carole van Grondelle. 'Luxford, Nola', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1998. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/628/nola-luxford-with-new-zealand-and-australian-servicemen-in-a-new-york-radio-studio (accessed 4 June 2026).