Eddie Wallis-Smith | |
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Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Tablelands |
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In office 1 June 1963 – 27 May 1972 |
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Preceded by | Tom Gilmore, Sr. |
Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Cook |
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In office 27 May 1972 – 7 December 1974 |
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Preceded by | Bill Wood |
Succeeded by | Eric Deeral |
Personal details | |
Born |
Edwin Wallis-Smith 3 January 1908 Maryborough, Queensland, Australia |
Died | 14 March 1988 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
(aged 80)
Nationality | Australian |
Political party | ALP |
Spouse(s) | Edna Elizabeth Langusch (m.1937), Ruth Gibson (m.1951) |
Occupation | Locomotive driver |
Religion | Church of England |
Edwin Wallis-Smith (3 January 1908 - 14 March 1988) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Wallis-Smith was born at Maryborough, Queensland, the son of Edwin Alfred Wallis-Smith and his wife Eliza Jane (née Moore). He was educated at Maryborough Central State School and Maryborough Boys Grammar School and in 1937 joined the railway ambulance before becoming a locomotive driver in 1941. From 1941 to 1946 he joined the 2/15 Australian Field Ambulance where he was discharged at the rank of sergeant.
On the 23rd January 1937 he married Edna Elizabeth Langusch. He married for a second time in 1951, this time to Ruth Gibson and together had one daughter. He died in Brisbane in March 1988.
Wallis-Smith, representing the ALP, won the seat of Tablelands at the 1963 Queensland state election. He held the seat until it was abolished before the 1972 state election and Wallis-Smith then moved to the electorate of Cook where he served until 1974 state election.