Edwin Wallis-Smith (3 January 1908 – 14 March 1988) was a member of the

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Biography

Wallis-Smith was born at Maryborough,

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, 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.SMITH, EDWIN
— 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

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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

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where he served until 1974 state election.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallis-Smith, Edwin Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1908 births 1988 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland 20th-century Australian politicians