Australian Dictionary of Biography

12 December, 1901
Mount Morgan, Queensland, Australia

17 February, 1994 (aged 92)
Mackay, Queensland, Australia

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• Scottish

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• Uniting

Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.

• Cawarral State School (Qld) (student, 1912-1915)

• store manager (1917-1922) Queensland, Australia
• sugar cane farmer (1923-1938) Queensland, Australia
• hotelier (1938-1946) Queensland, Australia
• local government councillor (1939-1942) Queensland, Australia
• soldier (1942-1945) Federal, Australia
• cruise ship operator (1946-1986) Queensland, Australia
• resort owner (1962-1985) Queensland, Australia
• autobiographer/memoirist (1984-1986) Queensland, Australia

• World War II (soldier, 1942-1945)

• Member of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1970)

• Freemasons (member, ?-1994)
• Returned and Services League of Australia (Qld) (member, 1945-1994)

• Country Party (Qld) (member)

• Proserpine Shire Council (Qld) (councillor, 1939-1942)
• Roylen Cruises (owner, 1946-1986)
• Brampton Island (owner, 1962-1985)