Service to the Woy Woy community
Umina resident Mr William Raper has been awarded an Order of Australia Medal in the general division on the 2013 Queens Birthday Honours List.
Mr Raper was awarded the OAM for his service to the Woy Woy community.
Mr Raper is president of the Woy Woy Conference St Vincent de Paul Society and has been a member since 1990.
He was president of the Normanhurst Conference from 1975 to 1990 and was a member from 1971 to 1990.
He was also a member of the Waitara Conference from 1955 to 1971.
He has been a volunteer member of Woy Woy Meals on Wheels since 1980 and a welfare officer at Umina Beach Men's Bowling Club since 1995, a director from 2003 to 2004, a voluntary coach since 1995 and a member since 1990.
Mr Raper has been a parishioner at St John the Baptist Catholic Parish of Woy Woy Peninsula since 1990 and was a Commanding Officer for TS Hawkesbury at the Royal Australian Naval Reserve Cadets during the 1970s.
He also received a Volunteer Reserve Decoration, long service award presented to officers in the Naval Volunteer Reserve prior to the establishment of the Reserve Force Decoration.
Email, 3 Jun 2013
Susan Fischer, Honours Secretariat