| 词条 | Watty Wallace |
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| honorific-prefix = | name = Watty Wallace | honorific-suffix = | image = | caption = | constituency_AM1 = Cairns | assembly1 = Queensland Legislative | term_start1 = 19 May 1956 | term_end1 = 12 October 1964 | predecessor1 = Thomas Crowley | successor1 = Ray Jones | birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|1|16|df=y}} | birth_place = Queensland, Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|1964|10|12|1900|1|16|df=y}} | death_place = Cairns, Queensland, Australia | birthname = George Walter Gordon Wallace | spouse = Lilian May Clark (m.1920 d.1936), Alice May Kiefel (m.1937 d.1977) | party = Labor | occupation = Meatworker }}George Walter Gordon Wallace (16 January 1900 - 12 October 1964) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.[1] BiographyWallace was born in Queensland, the son of Charles Wallace and his wife Minnie (née Collins). He was educated at the Mareeba and Chillagoe primary schools before joining the First Australian Imperial Force in 1916. He had put his age up by two years in order to enlist and saw action in France and Belgium with the 7th and 21st Machine Gun Companies.[1] On his return to Australia he joined the meat industry, working in both Cairns and Gordonvale as a slaughterman and butcher.[1] On 7 December 1920 Wallace married Lillian May Clark and together had one son.[1] Lillian died in 1936[2] and the next year Wallace married Alice May Kiefel[1] (died 1977).[2] He died in October 1964 and was buried in the Martyn Street Cemetery in Cairns. Public careerWallace started out in politics as an alderman on the Cairns City Council from 1949 to 1956 and a member of the Cairns Harbour Board from 1952 until 1956. At the 1956 Queensland state election he won the seat of Cairns for the Labor Party, taking over the seat from the retiring member, Thomas Crowley. He represented the electorate until his death in 1964. References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=70753226|accessdate=14 May 2016}} {{s-start}}{{s-par|au-qld}}{{s-bef|before= Thomas Crowley}}{{s-ttl |title= Member for Cairns|years=1956–1964}}{{s-aft|after=Ray Jones}}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallace, George Walter Gordon}}2. ^1 [https://www.qld.gov.au/law/births-deaths-marriages-and-divorces/family-history-research/ Family history research] — Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 21 April 2016. 5 : Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly|1900 births|1964 deaths|Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland|20th-century Australian politicians |
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