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Leslie Leonard (Les) Kirkwood (1891-1959) labourer, Water Board employee, trade union official and political activist
Birth: 9 August 1891 at Fingal, Tasmania, son of native-born parents David Kirkwood (c.1860-1925), a miner of Scottish ancestry, and Helena, née Schurrah (1865-1896). Marriage: 1925 at Krambach, near Forster, New South Wales, to native-born Jane Elizabeth Paff (1897-1984). They had two daughters and two sons. Death: 25 June 1959 in Sydney Hospital, NSW; usual residence Flood Street, Clovelly, Sydney. Religion: Anglican.
Sources
Water Board staff records; Water and Sewerage Gazette, July-August 1959 p.1; Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board, Annual Report 1959-60; Metropolitan Board of Water Supply and Sewerage Employees’ Association Minutes; Labor News, 1 February 1919, 20 November 1920, 15 and 21 January 1921, 16 April 1921, 27 October 1923; Labor Daily, 27 May 1929; Peter Sheldon, Maintaining control: a history of unionism among employees of the Sydney Water Board, PhD thesis University of Wollongong, 1989; NSW ALP ‘Executive Report for 1923’.
Peter Sheldon, 'Kirkwood, Leslie Leonard (Les) (1891–1959)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/kirkwood-leslie-leonard-les-34200/text42913, accessed 9 November 2024.
9 August,
1891
Fingal,
Tasmania,
Australia
25 June,
1959
(aged 67)
Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.