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Charles Allan Hawker [B 11121] • Photograph

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Summary

Charles Allan Seymour Hawker, Minister for Markets(Commerce) and Minister for Repatriation. In 1932 he was replaced and later resigned in protest at the government's refusal to reduce parliamentary salaries during the Great Depression. He continued to represent the people of Wakefield as their Nationalist Party elected representative. He died in the Kyeema airplane disaster near Mount Dandenong in 1938. He had been paralysed from the waist down during the Battle of Broodseinde in 1917. He was eventually able to walk with two sticks

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Physical description

Photograph; 20.6 cm x 15.5 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1935

Collection

Part of Portrait Collection

Subject

Hawker, C. A. S. (Charles Allan Seymour), 1894-1938

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Digitisation information

Date

05/01/2006

Format

image/tiff

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2,436 x 3,241 pixels (7.9 MP)

Size

23.72 MB

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