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- David_Griffin_(politician) abstract "Sir Charles David Griffin CBE (8 July 1915 – 25 March 2004) was an Australian lawyer and businessman, and the Lord Mayor of Sydney from 1972 to 1973. He was a prisoner of war at Changi in Singapore during World War II, and a poet.Always known as David, Griffin was born in Leura in the Blue Mountains and was educated at Cranbrook. In 1941 he sailed for Malaya and was present in Singapore at its fall to the Japanese in 1942. A prisoner of war in Changi for three years, he was released in 1945.He returned to the legal profession in Sydney. He was elected to the council of the City of Sydney in 1962 representing the Civic Reform Association, before becoming Lord Mayor in 1972.Griffin had been involved in radio and the theatre, and in 2002 published a book of poems written in Changi, including The Happiness Box. While in Changi, he collected many poems written by Australian and British soldiers there, and kept them in a cardboard box for over 45 years before releasing them. He retired to Mittagong in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, and died on 25 March 2004.".
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- David_Griffin_(politician) name "Griffin, Charles David".
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