Chisholm, Alan Rowland

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B.A. (Syd. et Melb.) : Lieutenant, 26th Battn. and Australian Wireless Section, A.I.F., France. Enlisting in December, 1915, and sailing 22nd August, 1916, with 20th Battn. reinforcements, was transferred to 2nd Anzac Wireless Section shortly after reaching England. Then joined Australian Wireless Section (Corps Signals) to act as interpreter on Front Line listening posts for detection of German telephone work by means of listening set (technically known as I.T.—Intelligence Telephone). Transferring to 26th Battn. as Education Officer shortly before Armistice, also served as Unit Repatriation Officer till invalided to Australia, arriving in June, 1919. Officier d''Academie. Associate Professor, University of Melbourne. Early education at Fort St. High School. Later at University of Paris and Tilly Institute, Berlin.

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1888

Birth in Bathurst -- NSW, Australia 6 November 1888
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Early education at Fort Street High School, Millers Point, NSW, Australia
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Early education at North Sydney Public School, North Sydney, NSW, Australia
1911

Tertiary education at University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia 1911
1911

Assistant - temporary at Glen Innes -- NSW, Australia 1911
1915

Lecturer at Sydney -Sydney Teacher's College- NSW, Australia 1915
1915

Enlisted 1 Dec 1915
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Military service as Lieutenant at France --, France
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Military service as Education Officer
1919

Founded 1919 at New South Wales [ NSW Australia ]
1921

Lecturer at Parkville -University of Melbourne- VIC, Australia 1921
1923

Senior Lecturer at Parkville -University of Melbourne- VIC, Australia 1923
1940

Associate Professor at Parkville -University of Melbourne- VIC, Australia 1940
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Nicholson, George Gibb
1981

Death in Armadale -- VIC, Australia 9 September 1981

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Male

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