People Australia

Norman Read (Norm) Lacey (1927-1995) coalminer, trade union official and Communist 

Birth: 8 September 1927 at Victoria Park, Western Australia, son of Horatio Herbert George Lacey (1886-1952), clerk and post office telegraphist, later a farmer, born at Gorlaston, Sussex, England, and Dorothy Freda Louisa, née Weickhardt (1898-1948), born at Korumburra, Victoria. Marriage: 23 October 1953 to native-born Jean Olive, née Reichard, late Shenstone (1926-2014). They had three children. Death: 14 November 1995 at Perth, Western Australia. 

• Joined Eureka Youth League about 1942, and became State president. Member of the Communist Party of Australia from about 1945 and later was a member of the party’s State committee.
• Attended World Youth Festival in 1951 and visited Bulgaria afterwards.
• Moved to Collie, WA, about 1952, and worked as a miner. Became active in Miners’ Union on Griffin Lodge Committee and was chairman of the Miners’ Publicity Committee about 1955.
• CPA candidate for the seat of Collie in the Legislative Assembly in April 1956.
• Later lived in Nedlands, Perth, and worked as a nurse.

Sources
Tribune, 27 March 1956, p 10.