Claire Russel Crocker

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Claire Ward was born on 7 September 1919, her father, John Frederick Ward OBE, was 36 and her mother, Florence Winnifred Braddock, was 35. She married Sir Walter Russell Crocker KBE on 24 August 1951, in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. She died on 25 July 2000, at the age of 80, and was buried in Centennial Park Cemetery, Pasadena, South Australia, Australia.

Extract from:
Holden, D. (2019). Mark Oliphant and the Invisible College of the Peaceful Atom (Doctor of Philosophy (College of Arts and Science)). University of Notre Dame Australia. https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/theses/270
In November 1950 a report was written by the director general of ASIO and sent to the officer-in-charge at the Australian Capital Territory. It noted that Mark Oliphant had written to the Peace Council in Melbourne, and then referenced Dr John Stanley Gooden, who had recently died but had been a member of the Communist Party of Australia. Gooden was an Adelaidean, who had travelled with his young wife, Claire, to Birmingham in 1946 to write a PhD supervised by Oliphant. In 1948, when Oliphant confirmed that he would leave Birmingham for Canberra, he offered Gooden a position at the ANU. Gooden accepted a role, making him the first appointed member of Oliphant’s new team. In 1950, as Gooden was making plans to leave Birmingham, he fell ill with a kidney complaint. Oliphant arranged for the ANU to pay for Gooden, his wife Claire, and child to be repatriated from Birmingham to Adelaide where he died, within weeks, on 9 June 1950. Claire Gooden, following the death of her husband, continued on to Canberra to become Oliphant’s secretary; a role that, at times, she had also taken in Birmingham. Claire Russel Crocker remained at the ANU until at least 1953. As Oliphant’s secretary in Birmingham and then Canberra, it is possible that she may have also fitted the description of ‘secretary to the technical adviser of Doctor E.’, and at this time she seems to have been of interest to ASIO. In early 1953, Claire Gooden is mentioned again in Oliphant’s ASIO files. Her name, and that of her deceased husband, were listed with those of close associates from Birmingham in a notebook seized during a raid of the Communist Party of Australia’s headquarters. Others named included Dr Leonard Ulysses Hibbard and Dr William Irving Berry Smith, B.Sc. (Adel.), Ph.D. (Birm.)., both of whom had travelled to Birmingham to work with Oliphant, and had followed him to the ANU. The ANU physicist, Dr Edward Kenneth Inall was also named. Oliphant intervened when it seemed that vetting was going toprevent Inall’s appointment to ANU in 1951. ASIO was clearly concerned at the network of left leaning scientists developing at the ANU