Alfred Ozanne

Alfred Ozanne
Member of the Australian Parliament for Corio
In office 13 April 1910 – 31 May 1913
Preceded by	Richard Crouch
Succeeded by	William Kendell
In office 5 September 1914 – 5 May 1917
Preceded by	William Kendell
Succeeded by	John Lister
Personal details
Born	1877 Melbourne, Victoria
Died	27 May 1961 (aged 83–84) Brighton, Melbourne
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Australian Labor Party
Spouse(s)	Edith Stewart (nee Moody)
Children	George, Myra, Alan, Alfred
Residence	22 Halifax Street, Brighton, Melbourne
Occupation	Accountant

Alfred Thomas Montgomery Madden Ozanne (1877 – 27 May 1961) was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1910 to 1913 and 1914 to 1917, both times for the seat of Corio.

Born in Melbourne, he was the son of Marcel Charles Ozanne, a Frenchman, and his wife Emilia Josephine Reinhardt. Ozanne has four siblings, a brother and three sisters. Ozanne married Edith Stewart Moody in 1900 and they had four children all born at Werribee. Ozanne had been an accountant and municipal officer before entering politics, and was the bookkeeper for the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works' Werribee Sewage Farm at the time of his election.

Ozanne was elected to the House of Representatives at the 1910 federal election, defeating Liberal Richard Crouch. He lost his seat to Liberal William Kendell at the 1913 election, and while again out of parliament served as secretary of Labor's Corio campaign council. He returned to parliament at the 1914 election, defeating Kendell.

He volunteered for service in World War I in January 1916 while an MP; attended officer training at Tidworth, was promoted to lieutenant and was briefly attached to the Australian military offices in London before returning to camp at Larkhill. He was declared "unfit for further service" in January 1917 and was invalided home after visiting the front as a civilian in his capacity as an MP. However, in April, he was reported to have been absent without leave when his unit departed from the front in November 1916, and both media and his political opponents suggested that he had been "protected by headquarters", that would have been court-martialled had he not been discharged, and that he had pretended to have been on service in his letters during his visit to the front.

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