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William Rosser (1879-1917) trade union leader, Socialist, IWW member, soldier
Birth: January 1879 in parish of Mumbles, Swansea, Wales, son of Samuel Rosser, farmer, and Martha, née Eaton. Marriage: unknown. Death: 15 April 1917 killed in action in machine gun post in the village of Hermies, near Lagnicourt, France. Religion: Unitarian.
Sources
information from Peter Sheldon, Dec. 1992; Brian Kennedy Silver, sin and sixpenny ale: a social history of Broken Hill (Melbourne, 1978), pp. 99, 109, 113, 'Navvy'; Edgar Ross, A history of the Miners' Federation of Australia ([Sydney] 1970); Verity Burgmann, In Our Time: Socialism and the Rise of Labor, 1885-1905, (Sydney, 1985); International Socialist, 22 January 1916 p 4, Peter Sheldon, 'System and Strategy: The Changing Shape of Unionism among NSW Construction Labourers, 1910-19', Labour History, no 65, Nov 1993, pp 115-135.
'Rosser, William (1879–1917)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://labouraustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/rosser-william-32440/text40234, accessed 7 December 2024.
Leader (Melbourne), 1 May 1909, p 23
January,
1879
Mumbles,
Swansea,
Wales
15 April,
1917
(aged 38)
Hermies,
France
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