Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Country Party
Secretary
Wyalkatchem branch 1928
Secretary
Mt Marshall District Council 1928–1940
Suspended from party for five months
1965 for issuing unofficial how-to-vote cards |
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20 November 1943 |
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Mount Marshall |
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State
Electorates
- MLA Mt Marshall, 20 November 1943–30 October 1949 (resigned)
Office
- Secretary, Parliamentary Country Party and Country Party Whip
Committees
- Member, Select Committee on Wool Handling at Appraisement Centres October–December 1945
Commonwealth
Electorates
- MHR Moore, 10 December 1949–22 November 1958, 9 December 1961–1 November 1963
- Contested Moore, 22 November 1958
Committees
- Member, Public Accounts Committee, 1952–1958
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Personal Information |
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17 April 1900 |
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Durban, South Africa |
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2 September 1974 |
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Lancelin, Western Australia |
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Taken by funeral director at Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Circa 1928 |
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Son of Charles Howard Roberts Leslie, medical researcher and surgeon, and Helen Gibson |
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Married 26 December 1931, St Saviour’s Church, Wyalkatchem (Church of England), to Isabelle Margaret Dawson (died 16 November 1992), daughter of Joseph Philmore Dawson and Isabelle Muir
Children: two sons and five daughters |
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Church of Christ |
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Educated King Williamstown and Grahamstown College, South Africa
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Journalist, secretary and newspaper owner |
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Railway clerk and journalist, South Africa
Served in South African forces, 1916–1919 with Queens South African Rifles
Joined the Army in 1940
Served in the Middle East
He was badly wounded at Tobruk and had his right leg amputated
Discharged 1943
Secretary, editor North-Eastern Wheatbelt Tribun,Wyalkatchem, WA from 1931
Sold his newspapers to RS Sampson, 1939 |
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Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) 1967 |
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Moved to Victoria, 1923
Chairman, Wyalkatchem District Patriotic Committee
President, Return Services League of Australia (RSL) branch
Member, Rats of Tobruk Association and Civilian Maimed and Limbless Association
Trustee and member, state executive RSL
Ex-servicemen’s representative, WA Regional Reconstruction Committee
Co-founder and president, WA Spastic Welfare Association
President, British Commonwealth Games Paraplegic Games Council
Chairman, organising committee, 1st Commonwealth and Empire Paraplegic Games, Perth 1962 |
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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. 150.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed online 5 July 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=9e264567-f71c-ec11-b6e7-00224814cbaf |
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David Black, 'Leslie, Hugh Alan (1900–1974)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/leslie-hugh-alan-10815/text19185, published first in hardcopy 2000, accessed online 23 December 2015.
West Australian, 22 October 1963, 10 June 1967, 4 September 1974.
Who's Who in Australia, 1950 |