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| Description | Includes: Application for a Carnegie Corporation Fellowship, Introduction & reference letters, record of attendance.
Also includes a 'Cable and Wireless' telegram, dated 1935.
- On 14 April 1915 he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force. He served with medical units in England (1915-18) and with the 2nd Field Ambulance in France (1918).
Promoted sergeant in 1917 and commended for his services in the following year, he was discharged from the A.I.F. on 24 June 1919 in Melbourne.
- He taught at Hamilton High and Footscray Technical schools.
- Assistant-lecturer in chemistry at Perth Technical School (College).
- Foundation secretary of the Western Australian committee of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
- President of the Royal Society of Western Australia (1931-32) and the (Royal) Australian Chemical Institute (1943).
- During World War II he advised the armed services on technical education and helped to administer the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme in Western Australia.
- With K. S. Cunningham he wrote Education for Livelihood (Melbourne, 1946).
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