Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Independent |
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9 September 1939 |
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Irwin-Moore |
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Electorates
- MLA Irwin-Moore 9 September 1939 (by-election)–15 March 1947
- Contested East Province 12 May 1934, Irwin-Moore 15 March 1947
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Berry, Horace Thurston, Inaugural Speech.pdf |
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1947 |
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Personal Information |
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1891 |
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Suva, Fiji |
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1 September 1949 |
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Hollywood Hospital, Western Australia |
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Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia |
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1930 |
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Son of Hon John Berry, engineer and surveyor, and Sarah Eugene Morey |
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Married 18 March 1916, District Registry Office, North Sydney, NSW to Eileen Dorothea Stier (born circa 1893), daughter of John Henry and Mary Anne Cattell
Children: two sons and one daughter
Widowed 14 February 1949 |
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Church of England |
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Educated at King’s School, Parramatta and Sydney Grammar School
London University
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Farmer |
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General manager Bukit Kajang, Rubber Estate Ltd, Malaysia 1919–1930
Commenced farming at Yerecoin 1930
Editor of Wheatgrower |
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Rockingham Road Board 23 April 1938–April 1939 |
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Enlisted Australian Imperial Force at Warwick Farm NSW, 16 August 1915, Second Lieutenant
Promoted Flying Officer 16 December 1916
Served in Egypt and France
With No 8 Company, 1st Battalion, D Company 3rd Battalion
11th Reinforcements, 4th Battalion and 69 Australian Squadron, Royal Flying Corps
Discharged 20 September 1917
Retired to Rockingham late 1930s
Member Rockingham and Safety Bay sub branches Return Services League of Australia
At time of death chairman Rockingham and District Ratepayers’ Association |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds. Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2010, p. 16-17. |
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