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Name	Roland Thomas Farrall
Alternative Names	Joseph Phillips
Born	16 June, 1893 Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Died	25 December, 1966 (aged 73) Prahran, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cause of Death	pneumonia
Related Entries	[View as tree] Farrall, Frederick Theodore (cousin) Hardy, Francis Joseph (colleague) Blackburn, Doris Amelia (acquaintance) Calwell, Arthur Augustus (acquaintance) Cairns, James Ford (acquaintance)
Education *	Cobram Primary School (Vic) (student, 1898-1907)
Occupation *	carpenter (1913-1956) Victoria, Australia anti-conscriptionist (1916-1917) Victoria, Australia forger (1918-1918) Western Australia, Australia prisoner (1918-1921) Western Australia, Australia communist (1940-1966) Victoria, Australia
Key Organisations *	Building Workers Industrial Union (Vic) (member) Industrial Workers of the World (Vic) (member)
Political Activism *	Communist Party (Vic) (member, ?-1966) anti-conscriptionist (1916-1917)
Social Issues *	domestic violence (perpetrator)

* Dates are approximate

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