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Place of Birth: Dandenong, Victoria, Australia
About Alan Finger
- Alan Henry Finger (6 December 1909 – 24 January 1985) was an Australian medical practitioner and communist. He was born in Dandenong, Victoria, to farmer Philip Charles Henry Finger and Minnie, née Freeman.
- He attended Maryborough and Melbourne High schools and then the University of Melbourne, from which he graduated in 1934.
- He joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1933.
- Finger married Joan Mary Hardiman, a journalist active in the Communist Party, on 8 December 1934.Finger was resident medical officer at Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1935, but moved to South Australia in 1936 to become outpatients' registrar at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
- He soon transferred to the Metropolitan Infectious Diseases Hospital in Northfield, later being promoted superintendent.
- He remained at the hospital for eleven years, and in 1941 received a diploma of public health from the University of Sydney.Finger and his wife were important in the revival of the South Australian branch of the Communist Party.
- He contested state and federal elections consistently between 1943 and 1967, but after Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 revelations about Joseph Stalin's government he focused more on issues such as the peace movement.
- Finger moved to Broken Hill in 1947, in which year he and his wife divorced.
- In 1949, after returning to Pennington in Adelaide, he married Jean Isobel Sams, née Marshall, a fellow divorcee, on 12 December.
- He was a full-time officer with the Department of Public Health from 1969 to 1975 and was recognised for his work on venereal diseases.
- He retired in 1977 and worked for a community health service in Kalgoorlie.
- Following Jean's death in 1978, he returned to South Australia and remarried his first wife, who had also been widowed.
- Finger died at Heidelberg on 24 January 1985 and was cremated.
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