Alan Lind
Australian politician
Alan Alfred Campbell Lind (20 April 1913 – 5 December 1988) was an Australian politician. His uncle was Sir Albert Eli Lind, a long-serving state MP for Gippsland East, representing the Country Party.
Early life
Lind was born in Bairnsdale to baker Willie Arthur Lind and Nora Madeline Smith. He attended Bairnsdale Primary School, Bairnsdale High School and Melbourne High School. After leaving school, he graduated as a teacher from the Melbourne Teachers' College.
On 16 April 1938, at the age of 25, he married Lilian McCann (1914–1972), with whom he had three children. On 28 August 1977, he married his second wife, Marie McKenzie, née Lindemann.
War service
From 1942 to 1944, Lind served for three years in the Middle East as a gunner with the second AIF 2/12th Field Regiment within the 9th Division Artillery, and later in New Guinea.
Political career
Lind began his political involvement in 1939, as the secretary of the newly formed branch of the Liberal Country Party at Stratford in Gippsland. From 1945 to 1952, Lind was a teacher in the Victorian country town of Mildura on the Murray River, near the New South Wales and South Australian borders.
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