Joseph Denny: Life and Career

• Joseph Denny was born on 6 December 1872 in Adelaide, South Australia.
• He was educated at the University of Adelaide and then studied law.
• Denny worked as a journalist and then as a lawyer.
• He was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly in 1900 as an "independent liberal".
• He was re-elected in 1902, but defeated in 1905.
• In 1911, he was elected Attorney-General of South Australia.
• In 1915, he enlisted in the First Australian Imperial Force to serve in World War I.
• He was commissioned in 1916 and served in the 5th Division Artillery and 1st Divisional Artillery on the Western Front.
• He was awarded the Military Cross in September 1917 when he was wounded while leading a convoy into forward areas near Ypres.
• He ended the war as a captain.
• After the war, he resumed his work as a lawyer.
• In 1931, he was expelled from the Australian Labor Party and joined the Parliamentary Labor Party.
• He was Attorney-General in the Labor governments led by John Gunn (1924–26), Lionel Hill (1930–33) and Robert Richards (1933).
• He was also Minister for the Northern Territory in the government led by John Verran (1910–12).
• He published two memoirs of his military service.
• He died in 1946 aged 73.
• He was accorded a state funeral.

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