No. Charles Kingsford Smith was never a member of the Australian Federal parliament.
Charles Edward Kingsford Smith, nicknamed 'Smithy', was born on 9 February 1897 in Hamilton, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Hamilton, Brisbane, Queensland Australia
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith.
It was awarded to him in 1917
The eldest brother is called Wilfred kings-Ford Smith.
Charles James (Jimmy) Melrose ,over the Bay of Bengal 1935 .
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was significant to Australian history because of his major contribution to aviation. He is perhaps best remembered for being the first aviator to cross the Pacific Ocean from the United States to Australia, doing so in 1928.
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith is perhaps best remembered for being the first aviator to cross the Pacific Ocean from the United States to Australia, doing so in 1928. He is probably remembered for the fact that he disappeared virtually without a trace in 1935 in the Bay of Bengal.
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's most famous plane is probably the Southern Cross, a Fokker FVII-3M monoplane, in which he made the first crossing of the Pacific from the United States to Australia. The Southern Cross, is now preserved and displayed in a memorial at the International Terminal at Brisbane Airport.
She went to a flying school run by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, the first man to cross the Pacific and the Australian Mainland.
He went to St Andrew's Cathedral School in Sydney before attending Sydney Technical College where he studied electrical engineering.