Albert Charles Joyce
CBE
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(22 May 18866 October 1973) was
Commonwealth Auditor-General of
Australia
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from 1946 to 1951.
Biography
Albert Charles Joyce was born on 22 May 1886 in
Melbourne
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,
Victoria, to Albert Samuel Joyce and Ellen (née Carne). On 20 February 1908 he married Elsie Spicer and had 4 sons and two daughters. One son died in 1944 over Germany while serving with the
RAAF.
Albert Joyce began working at the Auditor-General's office of the Public Service in 1903. He also worked for the
PMG, the Department of Defence and the Department of the Treasury. He served as Auditor-General from 1946 to 1951.
He was a member of
Rotary and the
Masonic Lodge.
[ He also became president of the ]Baptist Union
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H ...
of New South Wales.
His wife died in 1960.[
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References
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Australian public servants
1973 deaths
1886 births
Australian Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Auditors
Public servants from Melbourne