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Percy Joseph Smith (1880–1959)

Percy Joseph Smith

Percy Joseph Smith (1881-1959) builders’ labourer, trade union leader and Labor party candidate.  Birth: 3 November 1880 in Terang, Victoria, son of native-born Joseph Hannath Smith, junior (1857-1931), labourer, and Jemima, née Mackay (1852-1932), born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Marriage: 1906 at Camperdown, Victoria, to Edith Victoria Button (1882-1970). They had seven sons and five daughters. Death: 28 September 1959 in Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria.  Was a labourer in Terang in 1903. About...

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