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Name	John Pocock
Born	13 March, 1897 Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
Died	13 January, 1969 (aged 71) Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
Cause of Death	pancreatitis
Cultural Heritage	English Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Conway, Patrick (colleague)
Occupation or Descriptor *	coalminer (1910-1957) Queensland, Australia trade union official (1935-1957) Queensland, Australia
Key Organisations *	Australasian Coal & Shale Employees Federation (Qld) (organiser, 1935-1957)
Political Activism *	ALP (Qld) (member, ?-1969)

* Dates are approximate

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