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About Arthur Wade
- William Arthur Wade (25 March 1919 – 24 August 2014) was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Wade was born in the Newcastle suburb of Carrington and educated at Carrington Public School and Broadmeadow High School.
- During World War II he served in the Second Australian Imperial Force from 1939 in the 2/3 Field Regiment.
- He was captured in 1941 and was a prisoner of war in Germany and Poland until the end of the war in 1945.
- After the war he was a shopkeeper and married Heather Muncaster in August 1949 and they had two sons and one daughter.Wade was an alderman on Newcastle City Council from 1947 to 1968, including a year as Deputy Lord Mayor in 1958.
- He was a member of Shortland County Council (the local electricity retailer) from 1958 to 1968.
- He was the Labor Party member for Newcastle from 1968 to 1988.
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