Fry, Dene Barrett
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Fry
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Dene Barrett
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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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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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In 1923 he was elected President of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW and President of the Linnean Society in 1926.CHECK THIS Info from Rallying the Troops
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