People Australia

27 July, 1920
Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia

1 December, 1998 (aged 78)
Wynnum West, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

heart disease

• Presbyterian

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.

• Bundaberg East State School (Qld) (student, 1926-1934)

• labourer (1934-1941) Queensland, Australia
• opera singer (1941-1989) Queensland, Australia
• soldier (1941-1943) Federal, Australia
• clerk (1945-1954) Queensland, Australia
• singing teacher (1982-1989) Queensland, Australia

• World War II (soldier)
• 47th Battalion (soldier, 1941-1943)

• Officer of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1973)

• Westbrook Training Centre (Qld) (inmate, 1933-1934)

• Brisbane Opera Society (singer, 1948-1954)
• Repatriation Commission (public servant, 1948-1954)
• Elizabethan Trust Opera Company (singer, 1958-1961)
• Elizabethan Trust Opera Company (singer, 1966-1969)
• Opera Australia (principal, 1970-1976)
• Queensland Conservatorium (Griffith University) (lecturer, 1982-1989)