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MLA |
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Liberal |
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3 October 1911 |
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Claremont |
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Electorates
- MLA Claremont 3 October 1911–29 September 1917
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1917 |
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Personal Information |
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29 September 1869 |
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Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom |
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7 December 1945 |
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St Andrews Hospital, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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Spring Vale Crematorium, Victoria |
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Arrived in WA 1891 |
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Son of Francis William, merchant-music seller, and Mary Cameron |
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Married 16 April 1895, bride’s residence, Edinburgh, Scotland to Agnes Bell Jackson (born circa 1872), daughter of Francis and Christine McDonald
No children
Widowed |
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Presbyterian |
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Educated Inverness and Edinburgh
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Soldier |
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In Edinburgh in voluntary infantry battalion, then two years in Midlothian Artillery
Went to Southern Cross, ran a store for eight months, then to Kalgoorlie, did well in mining and business (in Hannan St)
Owned hotels in Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie 1895–1901, Leonora 1899
One of first to receive a commission (Lieutenant 1 October 1901) after Commonwealth took over Defence Department, in command of Cannington Mounted Infantry
Adjutant to 18th Light Horse Regiment 1 September 1902–1 December 1904
Captain 1 January 1903, Major 1 April 1908
Staff Officer of training camp at Karrakatta
Circa 1911 Brigade Major of WA Brigade
1914 general staff officer in WA, Camp Commandant from 6 August
Major in Australian Imperial Force (AIF) 24 March 1915, Brigade Major 5th Australian Infantry Brigade (Staff Officer to General White at evacuation of Anzacs from Gallipoli) then served in France
February 1916 Lieutenant-Colonel, commanded 18th Battalion
Colonel and temporary Brigadier General 1 December 1916, commanded 7th Infantry Brigade, temporary commander 2nd Division, July–August 1918, Liaison Division August–November 1918
Wounded in France
In Branch 2nd Division (Movements and Quartering) Repatriation Department AIF
Discharged 12 February 1920
Received Distinguished Service Order (DSO) (1916), six times mentioned in despatches, Order of Danilo 3rd Class (Montenegro)
Administrator of Mandated Territory of ex-German New Guinea 1921–1932 |
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Mayor of Claremont 1908–1912 |
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Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) 1917
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) 1919
Received Distinguished Service Order (DSO) 1916, mentioned in despatches six times, Order of Danilo 3rd Class (Montenegro) |
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Spent two years in England
Settled in Claremont
Lived in Victoria from 1938
Freemason |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2001, p. 208. |
Bibliography |
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JS Battye, The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, vol 1, p. 355.
Kalgoorlie Miner, 8 January 1946
Ronald McNicoll, 'Wisdom, Evan Alexander (1869–1945)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wisdom-evan-alexander-9160/text16173, published first in hardcopy 1990, accessed online 12 January 2016.py 1990, accessed online 12 January 2016.
Melbourne Herald, 8 December 1945
West Australian, 5 October 1911
Who's Who Australia, (1927–1928) |