Obituaries Australia

29 September, 1922
Sans Souci, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

12 October, 2012 (aged 90)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Gietzelt, Dawn Olive (sister-in-law)
• Hawke, Robert James (friend)
• Whitlam, Gough (acquaintance)

• soldier (1942-1945) Federal, Australia
• communist (1953-1960) New South Wales, Australia
• trade union official (1953-1984) New South Wales, Australia
• autobiographer/memoirist (2002-2006) New South Wales, Australia

• World War II (soldier)

• Officer of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1985)

• Automotive Industry Authority (member)
• Lionel Murphy Foundation (member)
• Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia (NSW) (member, 1940-1984)
• Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia (NSW) (organiser, 1953-1984)
• Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia (national) (secretary, 1955-1984)
• Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia (NSW) (president, 1955-1984)
• ACTU (executive member, 1967-1984)
• Qantas (company director, 1984-1993)

• ALP (NSW) (life member, ?-2012)
• Communist Party (NSW) (member)