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Alexander John (Alex) Dowling (1900-1991) printer, Labor party activist, Communist and trade union leader
Birth: 15 April 1900 at Stawell, Victoria, son of native-born parents Wilkie Dowling (1868-1935), labourer, and Janet, née McQuilkan (1878-1949). Marriage: 1923 at Narrabri, New South Wales, to native-born Clare Wild (1907-1994). They had two daughters and one son. Death: 26 September 1991 at Newcastle, NSW.
Sources
photo and interview Tribune (Sydney), 5 February 1969, p 3; Sydney Morning Herald, 27 September 1991; Eulogy by Darrell Dawson, at Beresfield Crematorium Meighans Funerals, 27 September 1991, pp.1-10; B. Phillips, 'The Red Inn' in The First 50 Years of Newcastle Workers Club, pp 50-52.
'Dowling, Alexander John (Alex) (1900–1991)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/dowling-alexander-john-alex-33445/text41815, accessed 1 September 2024.
Alexander Dowling, 1969
Tribune (Sydney), 5 February 1969, p 3
15 April,
1900
Stawell,
Victoria,
Australia
26 September,
1991
(aged 91)
Newcastle,
New South Wales,
Australia
Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.