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Eric Kenneth Freeman (1915–?)

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Eric Kenneth Freeman (1915-?) engine-driver, trade unionist and Labor party activist

Birth: 1915 and registered at Ryde, Sydney, as Kenneth Eric, son of Ernest Harold Freeman (1888-1973), a bricklayer, born at Fulham, London, England, and native-born Elizabeth Amelia (Eliza) Northover (1891-1968). Marriage: 3 February 1940 at St Paul’s Anglican Church, Cobar, to native-born Daphne Furey Dawson (b.1915). Death: details unknown. 

  • Worked as an engine-driver at Cobar, NSW, in the 1930s.
  • Was district delegate from Cobar sub-branch of the Federated Engine-drivers’ and Firemen’s Association to the annual meeting at Broken Hill in January 1938.
  • May have been the Eric Freeman who was president of Cobar Trades and Labour Council and life member of Australian Labor Party (NSW Branch).
  • Manager of the New Occidental Gold Mines, Cobar, in 1954. Purchasing officer at the Lake George Mining Co., at Captains Flat, in 1963.
  • Moved to NSW south coast by 1968 when he was working as a foreman at Batemans Bay. Was an oyster farmer at Bateman’s Bay in 1980.

Index to Life Members of the ALP (NSW Branch) 1979-97.

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'Freeman, Eric Kenneth (1915–?)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://labouraustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/freeman-eric-kenneth-33859/text42413, accessed 3 May 2025.

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1915
Ryde, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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