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Electorates
- MLA Murchison Eyre 20 February 1971–8 February 1986
Committees
- Member Joint Printing Committee 1974–1977
- Deputy Chairman of Committees 1980-1981
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Personal Information |
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6 July 1917 |
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Geraldton, Western Australia |
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4 November 2001 |
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Osborne Park Hospital, Western Australia |
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Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Western Australia |
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Peter, storekeeper, and Rose Evelyn Purcell |
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Married 11 November 1943, Melbourne, Victoria to Nancy Lillian Cooper, daughter of Frank Wormald
Children: two sons and two daughters
Widowed 11 November 1998 |
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Catholic |
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Yalgoo Catholic Primary School (Dominican Convent)
Marist College, New Norcia
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Storekeeper and salesperson |
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Mine worker, metallurgy 1936
In family business as general storekeeper at Agnew 1937–1940
Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force 28 October 1941
Reached rank of Flight Sergeant as radio technician
Served in Northern Territory 7 August 1944–13 November 1945
Discharged 11 April 1946
Country storekeeper at Agnew 1946–1948 and then in several suburban stores (Bassendean, Bedford, Floreat, Mt Hawthorn) 1948–1960
Television salesman 1960–1964
Life assurance representative from 1964 |
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Family moved to Yalgoo shortly after his birth
Living in Doubleview at the time of his death |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2011, p. 55. |
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