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Biographical Dictionary - Coorow, Carnamah, Three Springs


Surname

"Boy" Alfred James YORK

Born 15 August 1915 in Fremantle, Western Australia [15] [16]
Sin of Lewis Bertram YORK and Frances MUNYARD [15]
Shearing Contractor and later Farmer in Coorow [19] [96]
Member of the Coorow Football Club in 1934 and 1936 [5: 17-Aug-1934, 22-May-1936]
He was injured in the last quarter of the football match between Coorow and Carnamah in Coorow on 2 August 1936 [5: 7-Aug-1936]
Won Tilting at Ring and was 2nd in the Swerving Race in the Ring Events at the 1936 Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1936-37 [5: 30-Oct-1936]
Holidayed in Perth with A. Hamlet & Janet M. JONES and their children Madge and Edward of Coorow in March 1937 [5: 5-Mar-1937]
Became a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC on 20 March 1942 [96]
Private in Coorow's Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Married Madge Winifred May JONES in Perth in 1944 [66]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society 1948-1952 [13]
Competed in the Ring Events section at many of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's annual shows held in Carnamah [P8]
Farmer in Coorow in 1961 however by 1965 was a Farmer in Watheroo [19]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Ocean Reef [2]
Father of Peter [P84]
Died 16 February 1991; cremated at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, Western Australia [2]


Reference:  Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Alfred James York' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 29 March 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/alfred-james-york [reference list]




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