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Name	Walter Edward James
Alternative Names	Tom Turnspit
Born	22 June, 1905 London, Middlesex, England
Died	3 May, 1991 (aged 85) Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cause of Death	cancer (not specified)
Related Entries	[View as tree] James, Walter Hartwell (father) Bonney, Edmund Garnet (work colleague) Drake-Brockman, Henrietta Frances (acquaintance)
Education *	Hale School (Wembly Downs, WA) (student, 1917-1919) King's School (Parramatta, Sydney) (student, 1920-1920)
Occupation or Descriptor *	journalist (1923-1945) Western Australia, Australia censor (1942-1942) Western Australia, Australia winemaker (1945-1949) Western Australia, Australia food writer (1949-1972) Victoria, Australia journalist (1949-1972) Victoria, Australia
Workplaces *	West Australian (newspaper) (journalist, 1923-1928) Herald (Melbourne) newspaper (journalist, 1928-1929) West Australian (newspaper) (journalist, 1932-1940) Australian Broadcasting Corporation (journalist, 1941-1945) Daily Telegraph (Sydney) newspaper (journalist, 1941-1941)

* Dates are approximate