
Laurence Elwyn (Laurie) Short (1915-2009) ironworker and trade union leader
Birth: 18 December 1915 at Rockhampton, Queensland, son of storekeeper parents Alexander Eason Short (1884-1965), previously a shearer and wharf labourer born in Victoria of Irish ancestry, and Amelia Lillian, née McDonald (1895-1988), born in Inverness, Scotland. Marriage: 1941 in Victoria to Nancy Wilmot Borlase (1911-2006), a New Zealand-born artist. They had one daughter. Death: 24 March 2009 in Sydney, New South Wales.
Sources
Labor Year Book 1973; Labor News, July-Aug-Sept 1981.
'Short, Laurence Elwyn (Laurie) (1915–2009)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/short-laurence-elwyn-laurie-32632/text40502, accessed 3 July 2022.
Laurie Short, n.d.
18 December,
1915
Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
24 March,
2009
(aged 93)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia