Edwin Wallis-Smith

{{Short description|Australian politician}}

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|name = Eddie Wallis-Smith

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| constituency_AM1 = Tablelands

| assembly1 = Queensland Legislative

| term_start1 = 1 June 1963

| term_end1 = 27 May 1972

| predecessor1 = Tom Gilmore, Sr.

| successor1 = Seat abolished

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| constituency_AM2 = Cook

| assembly2 = Queensland Legislative

| term_start2 = 27 May 1972

| term_end2 = 7 December 1974

| predecessor2 = Bill Wood

| successor2 = Eric Deeral

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|birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|1|3|df=y}}

|birth_place = Maryborough, Queensland, Australia

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|death_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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|birthname = Edwin Wallis-Smith

|nationality = Australian

|party = Labor

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|spouse = Edna Elizabeth Langusch (m.1937), Ruth Gibson (m.1951)

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Edwin Wallis-Smith (3 January 1908 – 14 March 1988) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=2477412964|accessdate=22 April 2016}}

Biography

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. From 1941 to 1946 he joined the 2/15 Australian Field Ambulance where he was discharged at the rank of sergeant.[http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?serviceId=A&veteranId=23978 SMITH, EDWIN] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822171445/http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?serviceId=A&veteranId=23978 |date=22 August 2016 }} — World War Two Nominal Roll. Retrieved 22 April 2016.

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. He died in Brisbane in March 1988.

Public life

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.

References

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{{s-ttl |title= Member for Cook|years=1972–1974}}

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Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly

Category:1908 births

Category:1988 deaths

Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland

Category:20th-century Australian politicians