Robert Windsor

Robert Levi Windsor (28 November 1896 – 8 April 1988) was a businessman and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Biography Windsor was born in the Central Queensland town of Mackay to parents Levi Windsor and his wife Mary (née Dunn). He went to school in Mackay and then the Brisbane Technical College where he learnt his trade as an engineer In World War I he was a stretcher bearer in the 15th Field Ambulance 5th Division from 1915 until 1919. He was gassed in 1917 and went AWOL in London in 1919. He joined the Volunteer Defence Corps in World War II for a year. In 1926 he established RL Windsor & Son Pty Ltd, an engineering company now known as Fibre King and was the chairman of Condamine Oil Ltd from 1955 until 1957. His interests included tennis, swimming and motoring. Windsor was a Sunday School supervisor for 30 years and a member of the City Congregationalist Church. On 20 October 1920 Windsor married Violet Newman. Violet died in 1938 and on 12 April 1941 he married Hazel Gladys Gordon. He had a total of 5 children including one boy and four girls. He died in April 1988 and was buried in the Toowong Cemetery.