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Walter James (Wally) Curran (1932-2014) meat industry worker and trade union official.
Birth: 20 January 1932 at Williamstown, Victoria, son of native-born parents Charles Walter Ronald (Wally) Curran, (1908-1968) a slaughterman, and Marjorie Alberta, née Flett (1910-1985) a factory worker. Marriages: (1) 1953 to Eileen May Bromley. They had two children. (2) 1962 to Violet Malos. Death: 24 March 2014 at Williamstown, Victoria.
Sources
A.E. Davies, The Meat Workers Unite, The Australasian Meat Industry Employees’ Union (Victorian Branch), (Melbourne, 1974); John Playford, Doctrinal and strategic problems of the Communist Party of Australia, 1945-1962, PhD thesis, ANU, 1962.
'Curran, Walter James (Wally) (1932–2014)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://labouraustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/curran-walter-james-wally-33228/text41456, accessed 19 April 2024.
20 January,
1932
Williamstown, Melbourne,
Victoria,
Australia
24 March,
2014
(aged 82)
Williamstown, Melbourne,
Victoria,
Australia