Obituaries Australia

9 September, 1913
Glencraig, Fife, Scotland

8 November, 2006 (aged 93)
Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, Australia

• Scottish

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

• Anglican

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.

• Kurri Kurri Public School (NSW) (student, 1921-1925)
• Maitland High School (NSW) (student, 1926-1927)

• coalminer (1928-1945) New South Wales, Australia
• communist (1930-1959) New South Wales, Australia
• trade union official (1940-1973) New South Wales, Australia
• labour historian (1970-2005) New South Wales, Australia

• Medal of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1989)

• Rothbury Riot (1929, NSW) (participant)

• Jim Comerford Memorial Wall (Aberdare, NSW) (eponym)

• Independent Order of Rechabites (member)
• Trade Union Training Authority (member)
• Unemployed Workers' Movement (Newcastle, NSW) (organiser, 1936)
• Australasian Coal & Shale Employees Federation (NSW) (organiser, 1945-1973)
• Newcastle Trades Hall Council (NSW) (president, 1950)
• Australasian Coal & Shale Employees Federation (NSW) (general secretary, 1968-1969)
• Retired Mine Workers Association (NSW) (member, 1973)

• Young Communist League (Sydney) (member, 1930)
• Communist Party (NSW) (member, 1940-1959)
• ALP (NSW) (member, 1960-2006)