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gerald, wild, gerald, percy, wild, january, 1907, october, 1996, australian, politician, served, liberal, party, member, legislative, assembly, western, australia, from, 1947, 1965, minister, governments, ross, mclarty, david, brand, later, served, agent, gene. Gerald Percy Wild MBE AM ED 2 January 1907 11 October 1996 was an Australian politician who served as a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1947 to 1965 He was a minister in the governments of Sir Ross McLarty and Sir David Brand and later served as Agent General for Western Australia from 1965 to 1971 The HonourableGerald WildMBE AM EDMember of the Legislative Assemblyof Western AustraliaIn office 15 March 1947 25 March 1950Preceded byRay OwenSucceeded byNone abolished ConstituencySwanIn office 25 March 1950 16 March 1965Preceded byNone new seat Succeeded byCyril RushtonConstituencyDalePersonal detailsBorn 1907 01 02 2 January 1907Chichester Sussex EnglandDied11 October 1996 1996 10 11 aged 89 Booragoon Western AustraliaPolitical partyLiberal Contents 1 Early life 2 Politics and later life 3 See also 4 ReferencesEarly life editBorn in Chichester Sussex to Alice Hilda nee Heather and Edwin Percy Wild a yeast merchant Wild was educated at Shoreham Grammar School He emigrated to South Australia in 1923 as one of the Barwell Boys as part of an assisted migration scheme He was initially employed as a farm apprentice at Langhorne s Creek and Loxton and then went to work in the mines at Broken Hill New South Wales Wild returned to South Australia in 1930 working at an ice works in Port Adelaide and at a mill in Moonta In 1936 he went to the Western Australian goldfields working at mines in Norseman and Kalgoorlie In November 1939 Wild enlisted in the 2 11th Battalion He saw service in the Middle East Greece and Crete and was wounded in action in May 1941 gained the MBE Military Division in July 1941 and was mentioned in despatches in March 1942 By the end of the war Wild had reached the substantive rank of captain and the temporary rank of major and was serving as a camp commandant in New Guinea 1 Politics and later life editWild had been a member of the United Australia Party in South Australia prior to the war and on returning to Western Australia joined the newly formed Liberal Party Setting himself up as a businessman he purchased property at Kenwick and Forrestdale farming poultry and also establishing an electrical wholesale business He stood for the Liberal Party in the seat of Swan at the 1947 state election and successfully transferred to Dale at the 1950 election after Swan was abolished in a redistribution When the second McLarty Watts government was sworn in on 6 April 1950 Wild was named assistant Minister for Forests to Ross McLarty assistant Minister for Mines to Charles Simpson and assistant Minister for Housing to David Brand In October 1950 he was made a full minister with responsibility for the forests and housing portfolios Simpson remained Minister for Mines 1 The Liberals were defeated at the 1953 election but regained power in 1959 under David Brand In the Brand Watts and Brand Nalder coalition governments Wild was Minister for Works and Minister for Water Supplies and later also Minister for Labour from 1962 He was reelected to parliament in 1965 but less than a month later resigned to take up the position of Agent General for Western Australia The resulting by election was won by Cyril Rushton a future deputy premier Wild was agent general until March 1971 when he was succeeded by another Liberal MP William Bovell In later life he served on the boards of various Australian companies including the Australian division of Taylor Woodrow as well as sitting on the committee of the Western Australian Turf Club 1 Wild was made a Member of the Order of Australia postnominals AM in 1980 for parliamentary service 2 He died in Booragoon a suburb of Perth in 1996 aged 89 and was buried at Karrakatta Cemetery 3 He had married Virginia Mary Jean Baxter in 1944 1 See also editMembers of the Western Australian Legislative AssemblyReferences edit a b c d Black David Bolton Geoffrey 2011 Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia Volume Two 1930 2010 Revised ed Parliament of Western Australia pp 278 279 ISBN 978 1920830304 WILD Gerald Percy It s An Honour Retrieved 11 March 2015 Metropolitan Cemeteries Board Retrieved 11 March 2015 Parliament of Western AustraliaPreceded byRay Owen Member for Swan1947 1950 Succeeded byseat abolishedPreceded byseat created Member for Dale1950 1965 Succeeded byCyril RushtonPolitical officesPreceded byRoss McLarty Minister for Forests1950 1953 Succeeded byHerb GrahamPreceded byDavid Brand Minister for Housing1950 1953 Succeeded byHerb GrahamPreceded byJohn Tonkin Minister for Works1959 1965 Succeeded byRoss HutchinsonPreceded byJohn Tonkin Minister for Water Supplies1959 1965 Succeeded byRoss HutchinsonPreceded byWilliam Bovell Minister for Labour1962 1965 Succeeded byDes O Neil Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Gerald Wild amp oldid 1188600019, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
