URQUHART, H.C.

 Person: id 89343
University connections
UMelb
Event flag
World War I
Family name
URQUHART
Given name(s)
H.C.
Initials
H.C.
Gender
Male
Survived
Survived WWI
OCRd book entry or other narrative
Not listed on the Roll of Active Service. Mentioned in the University of Melbourne Magazine War Memorial number, July 1920, as having undertaken munitions work, or the like, in the United Kingdom.Chemist  at HM Factory Ellesmere Port, for the manufacture of phenol. Later engaged on experimental work on nitrogen fixation.
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Urquhart received an Orient Company scholarship in 1915 to travel to England to further study in metallurgy at National Physics Laboratory, London. During the war Urquhart was a technical chemist assisting in the preparation of explosives, poisons, gases etc for the allied forces [TROVE Sunday Times, Sydney, 18 Dec 1927 p23]
 
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