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Electorates
- MLA South Fremantle 12 March 1960 (by-election)–31 March 1962 (constituency abolished in redistribution)
- Cockburn 31 March 1962–23 March 1968
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Personal Information |
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21 October 1975 |
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Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia |
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Fremantle cemetery, Western Australia. Baptist funeral service |
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1924 |
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Waterside worker |
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Returned to United Kingdom for a time and worked as hotel porter and barman in Kensington Hotel, London
In Western Australia worked initially on relief works with Main Road Department then at various times with Mills and Wares Biscuits in South Fremantle, Shilkin and Moulden Tannery in South Fremantle, Sampton and Company in Fremantle as truck driver, and Fremantle Cold Stores
Union secretary in 1940s
Enlisted Australian Imperial Force 15 April 1942, driver with 124 Australian General Transport Company
Discharged 1 December 1945
Waterside worker from 1951 |
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Migrated again to Australia 1930s
Became life member Waterside Workers Federation
Patron of South Fremantle Football Club
Member Moral Disarmament Group
Lost leg in traffic accident in 1963
1965 elected unopposed |
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David Black, and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia volume two, 1930-2010, Perth: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, 2011, p. 60. |
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