Description:Chapters: Hugh Leslie, John Hyde, Paul Filing, Allen Blanchard, Donald Maisey, Hugh Halbert, Mal Washer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hugh Alan Leslie OBE (17 April 1900 - 2 September 1974) was a Western Australian Country Party politician and newspaper editor. Leslie was born in Durban, South Africa on 17 April 1900 to Charles Leslie and Helen Gibson. His parents died when Hugh was very young and he was raised in a facility, educated at King William's Town and Grahamstown College, at Grahamstown. Leslie served in the South African armed forces from 1916 to 1919 and worked in small jobs until emigrating to Victoria, Australia in 1923 and arriving in Western Australia in 1927. Leslie became very active in Country Party affairs and became Wyalkatchem's branch secretary in 1928. On 26 December 1931 Leslie married Isabel Margaret Dawson (aged 21), eventually bearing seven children. The North-Eastern Wheatbelt Tribune acquired Leslie as its editor in that same year and he went on to become its proprietor. Leslie exited the print media in 1939 and became chairman of the Wyalkatchem District Patriotic Committee and the president of the local Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia. He joined the army in 1940, stationed in the Middle East. Leslie's right leg was amputated in 1941 following an injury in Libya and was discharged from the army in 1943. He was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly on 20 November of that year in the seat of Mount Marshall. He served as the party whip and party secretary until his resignation from State parliament on 30 October 1949. Leslie won the Division of Moore on 10 December 1949 and continued a successful political career, including a six-year stint with the Public Accounts C...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1373793We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Moore: Hugh Leslie, John Hyde, Paul Filing, Allen Blanchard, Donald Maisey, Hugh Halbert. To get started finding Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Moore: Hugh Leslie, John Hyde, Paul Filing, Allen Blanchard, Donald Maisey, Hugh Halbert, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Moore: Hugh Leslie, John Hyde, Paul Filing, Allen Blanchard, Donald Maisey, Hugh Halbert
Description: Chapters: Hugh Leslie, John Hyde, Paul Filing, Allen Blanchard, Donald Maisey, Hugh Halbert, Mal Washer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hugh Alan Leslie OBE (17 April 1900 - 2 September 1974) was a Western Australian Country Party politician and newspaper editor. Leslie was born in Durban, South Africa on 17 April 1900 to Charles Leslie and Helen Gibson. His parents died when Hugh was very young and he was raised in a facility, educated at King William's Town and Grahamstown College, at Grahamstown. Leslie served in the South African armed forces from 1916 to 1919 and worked in small jobs until emigrating to Victoria, Australia in 1923 and arriving in Western Australia in 1927. Leslie became very active in Country Party affairs and became Wyalkatchem's branch secretary in 1928. On 26 December 1931 Leslie married Isabel Margaret Dawson (aged 21), eventually bearing seven children. The North-Eastern Wheatbelt Tribune acquired Leslie as its editor in that same year and he went on to become its proprietor. Leslie exited the print media in 1939 and became chairman of the Wyalkatchem District Patriotic Committee and the president of the local Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia. He joined the army in 1940, stationed in the Middle East. Leslie's right leg was amputated in 1941 following an injury in Libya and was discharged from the army in 1943. He was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly on 20 November of that year in the seat of Mount Marshall. He served as the party whip and party secretary until his resignation from State parliament on 30 October 1949. Leslie won the Division of Moore on 10 December 1949 and continued a successful political career, including a six-year stint with the Public Accounts C...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1373793We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Moore: Hugh Leslie, John Hyde, Paul Filing, Allen Blanchard, Donald Maisey, Hugh Halbert. To get started finding Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Moore: Hugh Leslie, John Hyde, Paul Filing, Allen Blanchard, Donald Maisey, Hugh Halbert, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.