Eddie Wallis-Smith | |
Constituency Am1: | Tablelands |
Assembly1: | Queensland Legislative |
Term Start1: | 1 June 1963 |
Term End1: | 27 May 1972 |
Predecessor1: | Tom Gilmore, Sr. |
Successor1: | Seat abolished |
Constituency Am2: | Cook |
Assembly2: | Queensland Legislative |
Term Start2: | 27 May 1972 |
Term End2: | 7 December 1974 |
Predecessor2: | Bill Wood |
Successor2: | Eric Deeral |
Birth Date: | 3 January 1908 |
Birth Place: | Maryborough, Queensland, Australia |
Death Place: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
Birthname: | Edwin Wallis-Smith |
Nationality: | Australian |
Party: | Labor |
Spouse: | Edna Elizabeth Langusch (m.1937), Ruth Gibson (m.1951) |
Occupation: | Locomotive driver |
Edwin Wallis-Smith (3 January 1908 – 14 March 1988) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.[1]
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.[1] From 1941 to 1946 he joined the 2/15 Australian Field Ambulance where he was discharged at the rank of sergeant.[2]
On 23 January 1937 he married Edna Elizabeth Langusch with whom he had one daughter. He married for a second time in 1951, this time to Ruth Gibson.[1] He died in Brisbane in March 1988.[1]
Wallis-Smith, representing the Labor Party, 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.[1]