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Leece, Lionel Henry James (1890-1956) tailor, gaoled trade union official and Communist
Birth: 18 April 1890 at Woolloomooloo, Sydney, New South Wales, son of Charles Fox Leece (1860-1942), a bookbinder, born at Liverpool, Lancashire, England, and Ellen Harriet (Nellie), née Wigley (1868-1909), born at Carlton, Victoria. Marriage: 1912 at Stanmore, Sydney, to native-born Ruby Olga Lamb (1892-1982). They had four daughters and two sons. Death: 3 June 1956 in hospital at Camperdown, Sydney, New South Wales; usual residence Chapel Street, Leichhardt, Sydney. Religion: Anglican.
Sources
Malcolm Henry Ellis, The red road: the story of the capture of the Lang party by Communists, instructed from Moscow (Sydney [1932]), p 87; Workers Weekly, 1 May 1925.
'Leece, Lionel Henry (1890–1956)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/leece-lionel-henry-34311/text43053, accessed 1 September 2024.
Lionel Leece
Workers' Weekly (Sydney), 1 May 1925, p 4
18 April,
1890
Woolloomooloo, Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
3 June,
1956
(aged 66)
Camperdown, Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
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