Harry Foll

Who was Harry Foll?

Hattil Spencer "Harry" Foll was a long-serving Australian politician and Minister of State.

Foll was born in West Brixton, London and educated at Holy Trinity School in London. He emigrated to Australia in 1909 and worked on a station near Longreach in western Queensland, but a year later moved to Beenleigh, near Brisbane, to work as a bookkeeper. In 1911, he became a clerk in the Queensland Government Railways. In August 1914, he enlisting in the first Australian Imperial Force and landed on the first day of the Gallipoli campaign. He was wounded in the head and leg on 19 May and was discharged medically unfit in February 1916. He married Evelyn Bush Mousley in December 1915 and they had a son and four daughters. He worked briefly as Secretary to the Minister for Railways.