Eddie Wallis-Smith | |
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Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Tablelands | |
In office 1 June 1963 –27 May 1972 | |
Preceded by | Tom Gilmore,Sr. |
Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Cook | |
In office 27 May 1972 –7 December 1974 | |
Preceded by | Bill Wood |
Succeeded by | Eric Deeral |
Personal details | |
Born | Edwin Wallis-Smith 3 January 1908 Maryborough,Queensland,Australia |
Died | 14 March 1988 80) Brisbane,Queensland,Australia | (aged
Political party | Labor |
Spouse(s) | Edna Elizabeth Langusch (m.1937),Ruth Gibson (m.1951) |
Occupation | Locomotive driver |
Edwin Wallis-Smith (3 January 1908 –14 March 1988) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. [1]
Wallis-Smith was born at Maryborough,Queensland,the son of Edwin Alfred Wallis-Smith and his wife Eliza Jane (née Moore). He was educated at Maryborough Central State School and Maryborough Boys Grammar School and in 1937 joined the railway ambulance before becoming a locomotive driver in 1941. [1] From 1941 to 1946 he joined the 2/15 Australian Field Ambulance where he was discharged at the rank of sergeant. [2]
On 23 January 1937 he married Edna Elizabeth Langusch with whom he had one daughter. He married for a second time in 1951,this time to Ruth Gibson. [1] He died in Brisbane in March 1988. [1]
Wallis-Smith,representing the Labor Party,won the seat of Tablelands at the 1963 Queensland state election. He held the seat until it was abolished before the 1972 state election and Wallis-Smith then moved to the electorate of Cook where he served until 1974 state election. [1]
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