Alfred James Leonard BilsonAge: 211920–1941
- Name
- Alfred James Leonard Bilson
- Given names
- Alfred James Leonard
- Surname
- Bilson
| Birth | 1920 36 27 Terang, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1920 Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 12 months) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 2) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 3) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 6) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 7) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 8) 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 9) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 10) Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup |
| Australian History | 1931 (Age 11) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 12) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | 1933 (Age 13) Hawthorn East, Victoria, Australia
paternal grandfather -
James Alfred Bilson
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| Australian History | 1933 (Age 13) 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 16) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 17) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Death of a mother | 1938 (Age 18) Hepburn, Victoria, Australia
mother -
Effie Lavenia Jenkins
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| Australian History | 1938 (Age 18) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 19) 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 20) 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 (on the date of death) 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. |
| Death | 1941 (Age 21) Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Reginald Madill Bilson
Birth 1884 30 23 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 1967 (Age 83) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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9 years mother |
Effie Lavenia Jenkins
Birth 1893 Terang, Victoria, Australia Death 1938 (Age 45) Hepburn, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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Marriage: 1918 — Victoria, Australia |
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2 years #1 himself |
Alfred James Leonard Bilson
Birth 1920 36 27 Terang, Victoria, Australia Death 1941 (Age 21) Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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| Father’s family with Evelyn Ewart May Silvester - View family |
| father |
Reginald Madill Bilson
Birth 1884 30 23 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 1967 (Age 83) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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| step-mother |
Evelyn Ewart May Silvester
Birth Cobden, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
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| #1 half-sister |
Phyllis Edna Bilson
Birth 1913 29 Death 1977 (Age 64) Prahran, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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| #2 half-brother |
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Alfred James Leonard Bilson has 2 first cousins recorded
Father's family (2)
Parents Private + Ellen May Bilson
Mother's family (0)
Extra information
Internal reference
I9672
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