Captain Robert Austin Ardill MC was a Northern Irish unionist politician.
10 Facts About Austin Ardill
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Austin Ardill later worked as the managing director of a feedstuffs company.
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Austin Ardill served in the Royal Irish Fusiliers from 1939 to 1946, winning the Military Cross for his bravery on the Greek island of Leros and retiring as a captain.
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Austin Ardill was a prisoner of war for 18 months before being freed by Allied troops after the D-Day landings.
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Austin Ardill served as chairman of the Irish Temperance League.
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Austin Ardill was opposed to the political reform programme of the Prime Minister Terence O'Neill and as a result lost the UUP nomination for Carrick in 1969 to Anne Dickson.
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In 1973, Austin Ardill was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly, representing South Antrim.
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Austin Ardill was courted by the Democratic Unionist Party and considered switching to that party before ultimately deciding to remain an Ulster Unionist.
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Austin Ardill was re-elected for South Antrim in the Constitutional Convention election of 1975.
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Austin Ardill was buried after a ceremony in the Holy Trinity Church of Ireland in Carrickfergus.