Elizabeth Mary ThomasAge: 621913–1976
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- Elizabeth Mary Thomas
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- Elizabeth Mary
- Surname
- Thomas
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| Birth | 4 April 1913 37 27 |
| Marriage | Henry Patrick Stewart - View family |
| Australian History | 1913 Note: Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains. Note: Matthew Flinders refers to New South Wales by the name 'Australia'. |
| Australian History | 1913 Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 8 months) Note: Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War. This was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's. |
| Australian History | 1915 (Age 20 months) Note: (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April. Note: Jervis Bay Territory comprising 6,677 hectares surrendered and becomes part of the Australia Capital Territory. Note: Surfing is first introduced to Australia Note: Billy Hughes became Prime Minister |
| Birth of a brother | 1916 (Age 2) Carlton, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
John Lindsay (Bill) Thomas
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| Australian History | 1916 (Age 2) Note: Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill' Note: Australia suffers heavy casualties in the Western Front Battle of the Somme. Note: The Returned Sailors� and Soldiers� Imperial League of Australia, the forerunner to the Returned and Services League of Australia is founded Note: The Labor government under Billy Hughes splits over conscription. First referendum on conscription is rejected |
| Australian History | 1917 (Age 3) Note: Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed. Note: Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade launches last cavalry charge in modern warfare to capture Beersheba from the Ottoman Turks. |
| Australian History | 1918 (Age 4) Note: (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens Note: Australian troops spearhead 8 August offensive against Hindenberg Line - the 'black day of the German Army'. Note: On 12 August, Australian commander General Sir John Monash is knighted in the field of battle by King George V Note: First World War ends - 60,000 Australians dead. Note: The Darwin Rebellion takes place, with 1,000 demonstrators demanding the resignation of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, John A. Gilruth. |
| Australian History | 1919 (Age 5) Note: Prime Minister Billy Hughes signs Treaty of Versailles: the first signing of an international treaty by Australia. Australia obtains League of Nations mandate over German New Guinea. |
| Australian History | 1920 (Age 6) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 7) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 8) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 9) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 12) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 13) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 14) Note: Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built. |
| Australian History | 1929 (Age 15) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Birth of a son #1 | 1930 (Age 16)
son -
Robert John Williams
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| Australian History | 1930 (Age 16) Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup |
| Death of a son | 1931 (Age 17)
son -
Robert John Williams
|
| Australian History | 1931 (Age 17) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 18) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Death of a mother | about 1933 (Age 19) Heidleberg, Victoria, Australia
mother -
Elsie Constance Hague
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| Australian History | 1933 (Age 19) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Australian History | 1936 (Age 22) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 23) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 24) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 25) Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised. Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires |
| Australian History | 1940 (Age 26) Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean. |
| Australian History | 1941 (Age 27) Note: 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. Note: Apr-Aug, Australian garrison (Rats of Tobruk) halt advance of Hitler's panzers for the first time during the Siege of Tobruk. Note: Menzies resigns and John Curtin becomes Prime Minister in the Curtin Government of 1941-45. |
| Australian History | 1942 (Age 28) Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia. Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua) Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay. Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies. Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure. Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws. |
| Australian History | 1943 (Age 29) Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula. |
| Australian History | 1944 (Age 30) Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians. Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville. Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians |
| Australian History | 1945 (Age 31) Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader. Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time |
| Australian History | 1946 (Age 32) Note: Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme Note: Norman Makin, is voted in as the first President of the United Nations Security Council. |
| Death of a father | 1948 (Age 34) Prahran, Victoria, Australia
father -
Arthur James Trembath Thomas
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| Australian History | 1948 (Age 34) Note: Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. Note: Australia becomes a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
| Australian History | 1949 (Age 35) Note: Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins Note: All indigenous ex-servicemen and any Indigenous Australians who are eligible to vote in State Elections (NSW, VIC, SA and TAS) are given an unrestricted right to vote in Federal Elections. Note: The Nationality and Citizenship Act is passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements. Note: Menzies returns to power as leader of the new Liberal Party Menzies Government. |
| Australian History | 1950 (Age 36) Note: 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea. Note: Voters reject a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party |
| Death of a brother | about 1951 (Age 37) Lota, Queensland, Australia
younger brother -
John Lindsay (Bill) Thomas
|
| Australian History | 1951 (Age 37) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
| Australian History | 1952 (Age 38) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1954 (Age 40) Note: Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party |
| Australian History | 1955 (Age 41) Note: Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement Note: Australia becomes involved in Malayan Insurgence Note: Hotels in New South Wales no longer have to close at 6 p.m., ending the 'six o'clock swill' |
| Australian History | 1956 (Age 42) Note: Television in Australia is launched. Note: Melbourne holds the Olympics Note: performing artist Barry Humphries introduces Edna Everage to the Australian stage |
| Australian History | 1957 (Age 43) Note: The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts. Note: Slim Dusty's Australian country music hit Pub With No Beer becomes the first Australian song to attain international chart success. |
| Australian History | 1962 (Age 48) Note: Robert Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that all Indigenous Australians should have the right to enrol and vote at federal elections, removing remaining restrictions applying in QLD, WA and NT. Note: Malayan Insurgence ends |
| Australian History | 1964 (Age 50) Note: The Beatles tour Australia; Note: 82 sailors die when HMAS Voyager sinks after being rammed by HMAS Melbourne; Note: The editors of Oz magazine are charged with obscenity; Note: PM Robert Menzies announces the reintroduction of compulsory military service for men aged from 18-25 years old; Note: First troops sent to Vietnam War. |
| Australian History | 1965 (Age 51) Note: Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland |
| Australian History | 1966 (Age 52) Note: The ban on the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service is lifted; Note: Menzies retires as Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and is succeeded by Harold Holt. |
| Australian History | 14 February 1966 (Age 52) Note: Decimalisation; on 14 February the Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents, with the Australian Dollar replacing the Australian pound. |
| Australian History | 1967 (Age 53) Note: Large areas of Hobart and south-eastern Tasmania are devastated by bushfires on 7 February that kill 62 people; Note: Prime Minister Holt drowns and is succeeded by John Gorton; Note: The constitution is changed to allow Aboriginal Australians to be included in the population count and for the federal government to legislate for them; Sydney is rocked by a series of brutal underworld killings; Note: Talkback radio is introduced; Note: British comedian Tony Hancock commits suicide in Sydney; Note: Gough Whitlam becomes leader of the Labor Party; Note: Ronald Ryan becomes the last person legally executed in Australia. |
| Australian History | 1968 (Age 54) Note: Australia signs the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; Aboriginal boxing champion Lionel Rose defeats Masahiko 'Fighting' Harada in Japan to become the world bantamweight champion; Australia's first liver transplant operation is performed in Sydney; |
| Australian History | 1969 (Age 55) Note: French conceptual artist Christo 'wraps' Little Bay in Sydney; Note: Renowned author-artists Norman Lindsay and May Gibbs die; Note: The Australian production of the rock musical Hair premieres in Sydney; Note: Top pop groups The Easybeats and The Twilights break up; Tim Burstall directs2000 Weeks, the first all-Australian feature released since Charles Chauvel's Jedda in 1958 |
| Australian History | 1970 (Age 56) Note: More than 200,000 people participate in the largest demonstrations in Australian history, against the Vietnam War |
| Death of a husband | 1971 (Age 57) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
husband -
Henry Patrick Stewart
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| Australian History | 1971 (Age 57) Note: Neville Bonner becomes the first Aborigine to become an Australian Member of Parliament; Note: John Gorton resigns and is succeeded by William McMahon Note: The 1971 Springbok tour sparks protest all throughout Australia. Premier of Queensland Joh Bjelke-Petersen declares a state of emergency in QLD in response to escalating protest. Note: Daylight Saving is introduced to New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory. |
| Australian History | 1972 (Age 58) Note: The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission rules that women doing the same job as men have the right to be paid the same wage. Note: Aboriginal Tent Embassy erected in response to the Coalition government's approval of exploration licences and mining tenements on reserves Note: The first Labor government since 1949 is elected under the leadership of Gough Whitlam Note: Australia recognizes the People's Republic of China Note: Queensland abandons Daylight Saving. |
| Australian History | 1973 (Age 59) Note: The Sydney Opera House is opened Note: The White Australian Policy (established 1901) is officially dismantled Note: Vietnam War ends Note: The federal voting age is dropped from 21 to 18 Note: Unionists save the historic 'The Rocks' area of Sydney from demolition by introducing 'Green Bans' Note: Patrick White becomes the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature |
| Australian History | 1974 (Age 60) Note: Darwin is devastated by Cyclone Tracy |
| Australian History | 1975 (Age 61) Note: (November) A constitutional crisis occurs when Malcolm Fraser blocks supply, bringing the nation to a standstill until Governor-General John Kerr dismisses Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on the 11.11.75. Fraser wins elections and becomes Prime Minister Note: The 'Privy Council (Appeals from the High Court) Act removes the right to appeal High Court decisions to the British Privy Council. Appeals to the Privy Council direct from State Supreme Courts remain until 1988. Note: South Australia becomes the first state in Australia to legalise homosexuality between consenting adults in private. Note: Whitlam government introduced the Aboriginal Land (NT) Bill into Parliament. The bill proposed land rights in the Northern Territory based on land claimed on grounds of need as well as traditional affiliation and traditional landowners maintaining control over mining and development. |
| Australian History | 1976 (on the date of death) Note: The Australian Capital Territory legalises homosexuality between consenting adults in private. |
| Death | 1976 (Age 62) |
| Burial | Maryborough, Queensland, Australia |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Birth 8 July 1875 28 29 Booth Street, Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia Death 1948 (Age 72) Prahran, Victoria, Australia |
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11 years mother |
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Marriage: 14 September 1908 |
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5 years #1 herself |
Elizabeth Mary Thomas
Birth 4 April 1913 37 27 Death 1976 (Age 62) |
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3 years #2 younger brother |
John Lindsay (Bill) Thomas
Birth 1916 40 30 Carlton, Victoria, Australia Death about 1951 (Age 35) Lota, Queensland, Australia |
| Family with Charles Herbert Williams - View family |
| husband |
Charles Herbert Williams
Birth 29 May 1903 Warrington, Lancashire, England Death yes |
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10 years herself |
Elizabeth Mary Thomas
Birth 4 April 1913 37 27 Death 1976 (Age 62) |
| #1 son |
Robert John Williams
Birth 1930 26 16 Death 1931 (Age 12 months) |
| #2 son | |
| #3 son |
| Family with Henry Patrick Stewart - View family |
| husband |
Henry Patrick Stewart
Death 1971 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| herself |
Elizabeth Mary Thomas
Birth 4 April 1913 37 27 Death 1976 (Age 62) |
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Marriage: yes |