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Walter John (Pincher) Smart (1911-2004) coal miner and trade union official
Birth: 10 September 1911 at Woonona, New South Wales, son of Henry Charles Smart (1872-1917), a coal miner born in Gloucestershire, England, and Sarah Isabella, née Allen, afterwards Conlon, and later O’Rourke (1882-1963), born in Gunnedah, NSW. Marriage: 15 October 1932 at St Augustine’s Anglican church, Bulli, NSW, to native-born Dorothy Ann Boyd (1912-2013). They had two daughters and one son. Death: 18 August 2004 at Hervey Bay, Queensland.
Sources
Pete Thomas, Miners in the 1970s: a narrative history of the Miners’ Federation (Sydney [1983]); Fred Moore, Paddy Gorman and Ray Harrison, At the Coal Face The human face of coal miners and their communities (1998).
'Smart, Walter John (Pincher) (1911–2004)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/smart-walter-john-pincher-34833/text43878, accessed 11 November 2024.
10 September,
1911
Wollongong,
New South Wales,
Australia
18 August,
2004
(aged 92)
Hervey Bay,
Queensland,
Australia
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