Life Summary - Frederick John Lloyd Edmonds - Labour Australia

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Life Summary

Name	Frederick John Lloyd Edmonds
Born	3 July, 1906 London, Middlesex, England
Died	18 September, 1994 (aged 88) Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cultural Heritage	English Welsh Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Blackburn, Maurice McCrae (associate) Mann, Thomas (related entry)
Education *	Melbourne High School (student, 1924-1925) University of Melbourne (student) Melbourne College of Advanced Education (student, 1927-1928)
Occupation or Descriptor *	schoolteacher (1928-1942) Victoria, Australia trade union official (1931-1936) Victoria, Australia communist (1937-1994) Victoria, Australia public servant (1943-1971) Federal, Australia
Military Service *	World War II (Volunteer Defence Corps) Volunteer Defence Corps (soldier)
Key Events *	Spanish Civil war, 1936-39 (participant)
Key Organisations *	Federated Clerks Union of Australia (federal) (member) Labor Club (University of Melbourne) (member) Labour History Society (Melbourne) (member) Teachers' Industrial Union (Vic) (member, 1931)
Political Activism *	Australian Labor Party (Vic) (member, ?-1935) Communist Party (Vic) (member, 1937-1939)
Workplaces *	Tonimbuk Primary School (Vic) (schoolteacher, 1928-1933) Cocoroc South Primary School (Vic) (schoolteacher, 1934-1936) Alexandra Primary School (Vic) (schoolteacher, 1940-1942) Dept of Labour & National Service (public servant, 1943-1971)
Miscellaneous *	Communist Party Dissolution Bill (1950) (campaigned against)

* Dates are approximate