{"id":1469,"date":"2023-06-18T19:43:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T09:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2023-06-18T19:45:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T09:45:22","slug":"vale-robert-hanson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Robert Hanson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BobHanson.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"982\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BobHanson-1024x982.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BobHanson-1024x982.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BobHanson-300x288.png 300w, https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BobHanson-768x736.png 768w, https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BobHanson.png 1085w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Robert Hanson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is with regret that we announce the passing of Robert Hanson.<br>Robert was a member of Dubbo CREST from the early years of the organisation. He held the position<br>of Operations Director, Dubbo Division for a considerable time.<br>In this position he was responsible for the monitoring activities and the smooth running of any<br>communication events to assist the community. These events ranged from Fun Runs, Car Rallies,<br>Emergency exercises with the Ambulance and a visit by the Queen.<br>Robert also took a lead role in the setting up of a remote linked base on Mt Sappa Bulga to enable<br>a greater area of coverage for the monitoring of the emergency frequency on UHF CB. This system<br>covered the area between Wellington and Nyngan.<br>He was also the driving force behind the setting up of the CREST Base and State Training Centre<br>in Dubbo.<br>Robert is survived by Trudy, 3 children and grandchildren. Trudy has run <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nalag.org.au\/\">NALAG<\/a> for many years<br>and they have been a strength to each other.<br>The funeral was held in Dubbo on Friday 9 June 2023 at St Brigids Catholic<br>Church. A copy of the order of service is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Robert-Hanson-Order-of-Service-9-June-2023_.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Robert-Hanson-Order-of-Service-9-June-2023_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with regret that we announce the passing of Robert Hanson.Robert was a member of Dubbo CREST from the early years of the organisation. He held the positionof Operations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}