Fry, Dene Barrett

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A member of the Linnean Society from 1908, he came to be an authority on Australian insects, specialising in disaese-carrying flies. Junior demonstrator in pathology in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney in 1911. [Rallying the Troops]

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Demonstrator in Zoology, Sci. I : Sergeant, 3rd Battn. and A.A.M.C., A.I.F., France. Enlisting in May, 1915, in A.A.M.C., joined hospital ship "Karoola "but, after one trip, was transferred to Infantry. Trained at Duntroon, sailed as sergeant, there being no vacancy for a commission, and served in many engagements in France till death. Killed in Action, Hermies, 9th April, 1917, and buried in Beaumetz Cross Roads Cemetery, Beaumetz-les-Cambrai. Early education at Lindfield and Chatswood Public and Fort St. High Schools. Later at Sydney Technical College and as an artist under Julian Ashton. "Son of the first woman graduate."". . One of the most promising students who ever attended the School of Zoology here."—S .J.J.

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1893

Birth in Lewisham -- NSW, Australia 11 October 1893
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Early education at Chatswood Public School, Chatswood, NSW, Australia
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Early education at Fort Street High School, Millers Point, NSW, Australia
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Early education at Lindfield Public School, Lindfield, NSW, Australia
1914

Tertiary education at University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia 1914
1915

Junior Demonstrator in Zoology at Camperdown -University of Sydney- NSW, Australia 1915
1915

Enlisted 1 May 1915
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Military service as Sergeant at France --, France
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Fry, Harold Willoughby
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Fry, Walter Bruce
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Military award: Mentioned in Despatches on
1917

Death in Hermies -- Pas-de-Calais, France 9 April 1917

Gender

Male

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