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IWW men, 1920 [Bessant is seated in front row, far left]
photo from Mary Glynn, the girl in the second row from bottom, per Verity Burgmann
Bernard Bob Bessant [also known as Bernard Besant], (1893-1941) fitter and turner, gaoled trade unionist and Communist
Birth: 8 May 1893 in Southampton, England, eldest child of John Thomas Bessant, hotel porter, boilermaker on railways, later greengrocer, and Mary Grace, née Treglown. Marriage: 10 February 1922 in Registrar General’s Office, Sydney, New South Wales, to fellow Communist activist Jean Mackay. Death: 1 October 1941 in Newcastle, NSW. Religion: nominal Catholic, none indicated on death certificate.
Sources
Verity Burgmann, Revolutionary Industrial Unionism: The Industrial Workers of the World in Australia (Melbourne, 1995).; Frank Cain, The wobblies at war: a history of the IWW and the Great War in Australia (Melbourne, 1993); information from P. Sheldon
'Bessant, Bernard Bob (1893–1941)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/bessant-bernard-bob-32635/text40507, accessed 17 March 2025.
IWW men, 1920 [Bessant is seated in front row, far left]
photo from Mary Glynn, the girl in the second row from bottom, per Verity Burgmann
8 May,
1893
Southampton,
Hampshire,
England
1 October,
1941
(aged 48)
Newcastle,
New South Wales,
Australia
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