People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

3 July, 1906
London, Middlesex, England

Death

18 September, 1994 (aged 88)
Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• English
• Welsh

Education

• Melbourne High School
• University of Melbourne
• Melbourne College of Advanced Education

Occupation

• communist
• public servant
• schoolteacher
• trade union official

Military Service

• World War II
• Volunteer Defence Corps

Key Events

• Spanish Civil war, 1936-39

Key Organisations

• Federated Clerks Union of Australia (federal)
• Labor Club (University of Melbourne)
• Labour History Society (Melbourne)
• Teachers' Industrial Union (Vic)

Political Activism

• Australian Labor Party (Vic)
• Communist Party (Vic)

Workplaces

• Tonimbuk Primary School (Vic)
• Cocoroc South Primary School (Vic)
• Alexandra Primary School (Vic)
• Dept of Labour & National Service

Miscellaneous

• Communist Party Dissolution Bill (1950)