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Name	William Gilbert Bodsworth
Born	8 May, 1893 Sandringham, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	30 August, 1974 (aged 81) Prahran, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Religious Influence	Methodist Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.
Occupation or Descriptor *	machinist (1914-1917) Victoria, Australia timber worker (1914-1954) Victoria, Australia soldier (1917-1919) Federal, Australia communist (1923-1974) Victoria, Australia trade union official (1925-1954) Victoria, Australia
Military Service *	World War I (soldier) 14th Battalion (soldier, 1917-1919)
Key Events *	Timber Workers Strike (1929) (trade union organiser)
Key Organisations *	Australian Timber Workers' Union (Vic) (president) Australian Timber Workers' Union (Vic) (member, ?-1974) Unemployed Workers' Movement (Vic) (organiser) Victorian Trades Hall Council (delegate)
Political Activism *	Communist Party (Vic) (member, 1923-1974)
Workplaces *	Love, Royle & Thurgood (employee, 1912-1917)

* Dates are approximate

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