Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Gordon, Duncan Murray, 1912-2012
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Gordon, Murray, 1912-2012
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1912-2012
History
Duncan Murray Gordon was born in 1912, the son of a commercial traveller. In 1927 he won a scholarship to Stott's College, Melbourne, and in August 1940 began a clerical job at the Victorian mining company Broken Hill South Ltd. He served in the Second World War between March 1941 to July 1946, in both the AMF (Australian Military Forces) and AIF (Australian Imperial Force) in Australia and New Guinea. Gordon, generally known as Murray Gordon wrote several short stories during this time, three of which were published in Southerly in 1945. Following his demobilisation Gordon returned to his old firm, leaving it in July 1949, 'in order to undergo a period of training for an entirely different occupation'. In 1950 he settled in England and his writing career appears to have ceased.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Final
Level of detail
Full
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Created, JH, 7-Sep-2020
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
Internal evidence.