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- MLA Subiaco, 3 October 1911–26 September 1917
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26 September 1917 |
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Killed in action, Belgium |
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Buried 800 yards south of Zonnebeke, Belgium. Commemoration: The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 29), Belgium |
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1894 |
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Tailor |
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Apprenticed as tailor on leaving school, followed calling in various parts of Victoria
Enlisted Australian Imperial Forces, 29 January 1916, 51st Battalion
Second Lieutenant, 8 August 1916
Served in France and Belgium
Killed in action in Belgium, 26 September 1917 |
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Military Cross (MC) 1917 |
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Foundation member, Perth Tailors’ Union, 1896
On goldfields
Several times president, Metropolitan Council Amalgamation Labour Federal
First president, Amalgamation Tailors’ and Tailoresses’ Union, Eastern Goldfields
President and vice-president, Trades and Labour Council |
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The AIF Project website. Accessed 26 November 2014 https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=291293
Black, David, Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Volume One. 1890 -1930 revised edition, p. 190.
J.S. Battye (ed.), The Cyclopaedia of Western Australia, 2 vols, Adelaide: Hussey and Gillingham, 1912–13, p. 352–53.
National Archives website. AIF record. Accessed 26 November 2014. http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=8094834
"A SOLDIER LEGISLATOR." The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879–1954) 6 Oct 1917: 6. Web. 26 Nov 2014 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27456635>.
CT Stannage, The People of Perth. A Social History of Western Australia’s Capital City, Perth: Perth City Council, 1979, p. 250–51. |
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