People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

18 June, 1910
Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia

Death

23 April, 1997 (aged 86)
Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Cause of Death

unknown

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• English

Education

• Bunbury Central Primary School (WA)
• Bunbury High School (WA)
• Claremont Teachers College (Perth)
• University of Western Australia
• University of London

Occupation or Descriptor

• historian (general)
• schoolteacher
• soldier
• teacher training college teacher
• technical/TAFE college teacher

Military Service

• World War II
• Volunteer Defence Corps

Legacies

• Charles and Joy Staples South West Region Publications Fund (University of Western Australia)

Key Organisations

• Fellowship of Australian Writers (WA)
• Fremantle Maritime Museum (WA)
• Katharine Susannah Prichard Foundation
• Royal Western Australian Historical Society
• State School Teachers' Union of Western Australia
• National Trust of Australia (WA)
• Australian Dictionary of Biography (ANU)

Political Activism

• ALP (WA)

Workplaces

• Northcliffe Primary School (WA)
• Perth Modern School
• Perth Technical College
• Leederville Technical College (Perth)
• Kent Street High School (Perth)
• Applecross Senior High School (Perth)
• Graylands Teachers' College (WA)
• Mount Lawley Teachers College (WA)