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Labor |
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29 September 1917 |
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Fremantle |
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Electorates
- MLA Fremantle 29 September 1917–12 March 1921
- Contested Fremantle 12 March 1921
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1921 |
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Personal Information |
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2 October 1885 |
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Sedgley, Dudley, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom |
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16 January 1924 |
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Fremantle Hospital, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Arrived WA 1905 |
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Son of James, registrar and civil servant (workhouse master), and Elizabeth Mary Simpson |
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Married 6 February 1915, District Registry Office, Bunbury, Winifred Alwina Ninke (born circa 1885), daughter of Rudolph and Gertrude Myers
Children: one daughter |
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Church of England |
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Educated Dudley Elizabethan School and Birmingham University
Studied for ministry but did not complete course
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Auctioneer |
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Auctioneer and insurance agent at Collie and Fremantle
Enlisted 10 August 1915, New Guinea Guard, 4th Tropical Force Field Company
Served at Rabaul, Sergeant 1 November 1916
Discharged because of ill-health 16 May 1917
Journalist from 1921 |
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Resided at Cottesloe |
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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, 2010, p. 109.
West Australian, 1 October 1917. |
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