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Electorates
- MLC North Province 13 June 1942 (by-election)–21 May 1946
- Contested North Province 4 May 1946
Committees
- Member Select Committee on the Care and Reform of Youthful Delinquents 1943
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Personal Information |
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30 June 1891 |
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Arakoon, New South Wales, Australia |
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10 October 1961 |
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St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London, England |
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Cremation. Ashes to War Cemetery, Karrakatta, Western Australia |
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Arrived WA 1898 |
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Son of Charles, warder/barman/contractor, and Sarah Jane Frances, and uncle of Richard Charles Old |
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Married 6 June 1927, St George’s Cathedral, Perth, (Church of England), to Marjorie Richardson (born circa 1908), daughter of Frederick William and Lillian Rogers
Children: two sons and three daughters |
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Church of England |
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Perth, Western Australia
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Miner, engine driver, publican and businessperson |
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Worked with Richardson & Company, merchants at Katanning 1905–1908
Miner on goldfields 1908–1909
Locomotive engine driver Western Australian Government Railways from 1909
Worked also at various times in timber industry and wheat farming
Enlisted Australian Imperial Force (AIF) 2 December 1915 at Blackboy Hill
Served with 44th Battalion in France, promoted Lieutenant 3 March 1918, wounded 8 and 14 September 1918
Discharged 22 May 1919
Publican at Rob Roy Hotel in Onslow from 1919, living in Queen’s Park 1922, licensee Gascoyne Hotel 1925–1961, also Maylands Hotel and Civic Hotel in Inglewood in 1940s
Owned and traded schooner Sea Flower in North West, especially to transport wool and primary produce in Carnarvon area
Half owner of Tallering Station, Pindar |
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Onslow Road Board early 1920s
Carnarvon Municipal Council 25 November 1925–October 1935
Carnarvon Municipal Council Mayor 1929–32 |
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Distinguished Service Order (DSO), 1918 |
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President Returned Services League branch for seven years
In latter years lived in Nedlands |
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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. 51.
Colless, p. 237.
R Scott-Memory, A Town Grows: Carnarvon, Western Australia (Perth, 1967)
West Australian, circa 20 September 1922. |
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