Parnell, Thomas

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Note from Report Board of Faculties 29/1/1916 "...but his designs for a safety cath(sic) for bombs have been favourably considered by the Defence Authorities and forwarded to the War Office". UQ Archives file WQA S279

Commissioned in May 1918, he was appointed to Australian Corps headquarters as gas officer: his duties included defusing unexploded gas-shells. Lieutenant Parnell returned to Brisbane and was demobilized on 5 May 1919.
He refunded £437 'excess salary' paid by the university, asking that it be used to help ex-servicemen to undertake tertiary studies. From ADB

Book of Remembrance entry

Melbourne University Roll of Active Service
PARNELL, THOMAS.
Tutor of Trinity 1904-1911; M.A. Cantab.; Professor of Physics, Univ. of Queensland since 1912.
A.F.A., Gunner 29.1.17; 6th Bty. 17.10.17; Corps Troops Gas Officer 7.5.18, 2/Lt.; Lieut. 7.8.18; 4th Div. Gas Officer 21.10.18. Demob. 5.5.19.

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1881

Birth in West Haddon -- Northamptonshire, United Kingdom 15 July 1881
1903

Tertiary education at University of Cambridge, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England 1903
1903

Lecturer and Tutor at Parkville -University of Melbourne- VIC, Australia 1903
1907

Tertiary education at University of Cambridge, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England 1907
1911

Tertiary education at University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, Australia 1911
1911

Lecturer in Physics at St Lucia -University of Queensland- Brisbane, QLD, Australia 1 April 1911
1913

Married 10 Mar 1913
1917

Military service as Lieutenant 1917
1917

Enlisted 29 Jan 1917
1917

Embarked 21 Jun 1917
1919

Chair of Physics at St Lucia -University of Queensland- Brisbane, QLD, Australia 1 January 1919
1919

Returned to Australia 6 Apr 1919
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Member of Royal Society of Queensland
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Member of Australia & NZ Association for the Advancement of Science
1948

Death in Indooroopilly -- QLD, Australia 1 September 1948

Gender

Male