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Anderson, William Preston	see:	RNVR officers' section
Arkell, Denis	29.08.1907 ? St Pancras district, London ? - 05.1986 ? Hendon district, Middlesex ?	T/Civilian Officer ? RAFVR:   Acm. 2nd cl. ? [1883253] (A) P/O (prob) 16.03.1944 [172431] P/O (prob) 11.05.1944 (WS) F/O 11.11.1944 (emgcy list) (reld 10.02.1954; retaining rank of Sq.Ldr.)	12.1940 - (10.1943) civil staff, Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty 16.03.1944     commissioned, RAFVR (Administrative and Special Duties Branch)

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Baxendell, Geoffrey Thomas * Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Harold Baxendell (1882-), and Mary Agnes Miles (1881-). Married Mary Doreen Short (28.02.1911 - 31.01.2004), daughter of Augustine Barry Short, and Mary Elizabeth Davies; two daughters, one son. * Birth registration as Thomas Geoffrey Baxendell	03.07.1908 Stretford, Barton upon Irwell district, Lancashire - 25.02.2006 Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield district, Hertfordshire	T/Pharmacist (1944-1946)	12.1944 - (07.1946) RN Auxiliary Hospital, St Peters, Colombo, Ceylon [HMS Lanka] (10.1946) - (04.1947) RN Auxiliary Hospital, St Peters, Colombo, Ceylon * * indexed, but not listed as such
Briggs, Frank	07.03.1905 - 08.2002 Torbay district, Devon	Assistant, Grade II (1940) Acting Scientific Officer (1943-1946) BEM 01.01.1941 New Year 41	(1940)     HM Signal School (08.1943) - (04.1946) Admiralty Signal Establishment, Haslemere Post-war he worked for Decca Navigation and had a pilots licence flying between Decca Navigation centres in Europe and UK.
Bruntisfield, 1st Baron, of Boroughmuir (cr. 1942); Sir Victor Alexander George Anthony Warrender, Bt. (cr. 1715) Son of Sir George John Scott Warrender, 7th Bt KCB, KCVO, and Lady (Ethel) Maud Warrender (died 1945), youngest daughter of 8th Earl of Shaftesbury. Succeeded to father's Baronetcy, 1917. Married 1st (1920) Dorothy (marriage dissolved 1945), youngest daughter of late Colonel R.H. Rawson, MP, and Lady Beatrice Rawson; three sons. Married 2nd (1948) Tania, younger daughter of late Dr M. Kolin, St Jacob, Dubrovnik, Jugoslavia; one son, one daughter.	23.06.1899 St George Hanover Square, London - 14.01.1993	Secretary ? MC 1918 ?	Education: Eton 1917 - 1918 served European War with the Grenadier Guards (MC, Russian Order of St Stanislas, Star of Rumania, St Ann of Russia with sword) 1923 - 1942 Member of Parliament (U), Grantham Division of Kesteven and Rutland (an assistant Whip, 1928-31) 1931 - 1932 Junior Lord of the Treasury 1932 - 1935 Vice-Chamberlain of HM Household 1935 - 1935 Comptroller of HM Household 1935 - 1935 Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to Admiralty 1935 - 1940 Financial Secretary, War Office 1940 - 1942 Parliamentary and Financial Secretary, Admiralty 1942 - 1945 Parliamentary Secretary, Admiralty
Byng, Robert Cecil	see:	RNVR officers' section

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Claassen, Albert Edward "Ted" Son (with three sisters and three brothers) of Henry Claassen (1871-1916), and Annie Louisa Hampton (1873-1917). Married Ethel Decima Chittenden (28.10.1905 - 26.12.1987), daughter (with two brothers and one sister) of William Chittenden (1870-1919), and Maud Sophia Gaunt (1868-1937); three sons.	19.08.1907 Camberwell, London - 30.12.1988 Westville, nr Durban, Natal, South Africa	T/Assistant Civil Engineer 1943? T/Civil Engineer 1944/45? T/Cdr. (Sp.Br.) RNVR 23.07.1945 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)	Education: MICE (S Afr), MISE. (10.1942) - (10.1943) HM Dockyard Ceylon (12.1943) - (10.1944) Works Districts East Indies Area (comprising Ceylon and India, Diego Suarez, Kilindini, Mauritius, Persian Gulf and Seychelles) (01.1945)     Department of the Civil Engineer-in-Chief, Admiralty (04.1945) - (07.1945) Works Districts Culham RN Air Station (10.1945)     no appointment listed Hong Kong Public Works Department, 1948-1965 (latterly as Chief Structural Engineer).
Clouston, John Collier The Family of Clouston website (possibly)	10.10.1876? - 12.1947?	T/Technical Assistant ? OBE 04.01.1944 New Year 44	(06.1943) - (04.1946) North-East of England region, Regional  Organisation for Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs, Admiralty
Cook, S L Residence: (1945) Dunstable, Bedfordshire.	? -	T/Experimental Officer 23.10.1944?	Education: university course in electrical engineering (BSc); vacation course with Metro-Vicks.       Degaussing Technical Officer, Devonport, Alexandria & Port Said; Minesweeping Division of HMS Vernon (with interests in light electrical engineering (development) and underwater measuring apparatus) 23.10.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Vernon (mine design department, Leigh Park House, near Havant, Hampshire) Post-war possibly B.T.H. or Marconi's.
Crawley, Leslie Robert	28.04.1918 - 01.01.2000 Ashford with Shepway district, Kent	T/Assistant Civil Engineer 06.1943? (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)	(06.1943) - (10.1945) Department of the Civil Engineer-in-Chief, Admiralty (Bath) A relative writes: "He worked in Admiralty as a civil engineer in Orkney September 1939 to August 1943 building Naval Air Stations MS Tern and HMS Sparrowhawk. Then posted to Admiralty C-in-C's department in Bath where he had a courtesy rank of Lt Commander and worked on the planning for the invasion of Japan."

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Darbyshire, Jack Son (with one brother and one sister) of Arthur Eric Darbyshire (1894-1960), and Ellen Ann Jones (1893-1976). Married (30.04.1955, Portsmouth Cathedral) Mollie Irving; three sons, one daughter.	27.05.1919 Llanrwst, Maridneth N district - 04.11.2004 Bangor, Caernarvonshire, Wales [Burial of ashes at St. Tysylio (Church Island) Menai Bridge]	T/Experimental Officer > 04.1945, < 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)	Education: BSc 1940, MSc 1949, DSc 1958 Wales. FInstP, FRMetS. (07.1945) - (04.1946) Scientific and Technical Staff at Admiralty Research Laboratory (Teddington, Middlesex) under Scientific Research and Experiment Department, Admiralty Oceanographer. Professor of Physical Oceanography, UNCW, Bangor, 1963.

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Emberson, William Henry	see:	RNVR officers' section

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Field, Michael John Son (with two sisters) of Michael Birt Field (1874-1930), and Gertrude Annie Simmonds (1868-1933). Married Alice Mary Taylor (13.04.1909 - 07.2002); two daughters, three sons.	08.04.1904 Manchester, Chorlton district, Lancashire - 26.01.1950 University College Hospital, St Pancras district, London WC1 (formerly of Reigate, Surrey)	Technical Officer (01.1933)-(05.1937) Senior Technical Officer (07.1937)-(02.1943) Principal Technical Officer (04.1943)-(07.1946) Senior Principal Scientific Officer (04.1947)-(05.1949)	Education: BSc. (01.1933) - (03.1939) Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty (04.1939) - (07.1946) Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [from about 04.1944 specified as Scientific and Technical Staff at Admiralty Gunnery Establishment, Teddington] (04.1947) - (05.1949) Royal Naval Scientific Service
Forbes, William Archibald David	(06?).1890 Hackney, Greater London - ?	Assistant Constructor 07.1915 Constructor ? Acting Chief Constructor 1939/40? Acting Assistant Director 1944 (retd > 05.1950, < 05.1953)	07.1915 joined Royal Corps of Naval Constructors (07.1935) - (07.)1937 a Constructor, Naval Construction Department, Admiralty (07.)1937 - (08.1939) a Constructor, HM Dockyard, Malta [HMS St Angelo] (04.1940) - (06.)1944 an Acting Chief Constructor, Naval Construction Department, Admiralty (10.)1944 - (05.1950) an Acting Assistant Director, Naval Construction Department, Admiralty MINA

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Goodall, Marcus Campbell Oldest son of E.C. Goodall, and ... Elliott, of London W11. Married (1960) Janet Fauntleroy McKenney; one son, one daughter.	03.03.1914 Kentish Town, St Pancras district, London - 14.09.1999 Shincliffe, Durham Central district, Durham	T/Experimental Officer ? (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)	Education: Uppingham School (09.1927-07.1932; Constables House); Balliol College, Oxford (1932-1935). (08.)1943 - (07.)1945 Admiralty Signal Establishment (in the scientific and technical pools at Royal Fort, Bristol) [appointment possibly mid-1942] Marconi Ltd., Research Department, Essex, 1945-1949. FRGS, 1948. Leverhulme Research Fellow, 1949-1950. Institute for Advanced Studies (Mathematics), Princeton. Research Fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory, Massachusetts, 1951. Lecturer in Zoology (Biophysics) , University of Michigan, 1953. Research Associate 1956, Staff Member, Research Laboratory of Electronics 1961, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Associate Member, Institute for Biomedical Research, Chicag, 1966. Associate Professor of Biophysics, University of Alabama 1970 (Emeritus Professor 1984). Published: Science and the politician (1965); Science, logic, and political action (1970); Science, survival and the west (2001); numerous papers.
Greave, Ernest John	see:	RNVR officers' section
Grimley, William Kenneth	06.02.1912 - 02.1997 Weymouth, Dorset	A/Technical Officer ? Technical Officer ? Senior Scientific Officer (07.1948) Principal Scientific Officer (05.1950) - (01.1956) Senior Principal Scientific Officer (07.1961) - (02.1963) OBE 01.01.1963 New Year 63	16.06.1941 - (08.1942) Anti-Submarine Warfare Division, Admiralty (02.1943) - (07.1945) Anti-Submarine Materiel Department, Admiralty (07.1948) - (02.1963) Royal Naval Scientific Service (1963) - (02.1969) Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment, Portland, Dorset AMIEE

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Hutchison, T S	? - ?	T/Experimental Officer 28.06.1943?	Education: BSc. 28.06.1943 - (07.1946) Torpedo Experimental Establishment, Greenock

 

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Klemantaski, Louis   Married (1955) Ursula Staples Smith.	12.02.1912 Harbin, Manchuria, China - 24.06.2001 Coombe Hay, nr Bath, Somerset	T/Experimental Officer > 01.1945, < 07.1945	Education: Kings College, London. 1939? - 1945? served (not in officer capacity) Miscellaneous Weapon Development Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (07.1945) - (04.1946) Scientific Research and Experiment Department, Admiralty Renowned motor racing photographer. Published: Klemantaski himself (1998); Klemantaski and Ferrari; Klemantaski and Aston Martin. Literature: Gerald Pawle, The secret war (1956).

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Lee, Edward "Ted" Son of Thomas and Florence Lee. Married (1942) Joan Pearson; three daughters (their youngest daughter, Lesley Ronaldson became the first woman professional Real Tennis player and a world doubles champion).	02.03.1914 Lanchester, Durham - 31.12.2001 Weybridge, Surrey	Junior Scientific Officer (04.1940) Scientific Officer (02.1941) - (06.1944) T/Senior Experimental Officer (07.1945) - (04.1946) Principal Scientific Officer (07.1948) Senior Principal Scientific Officer (05.1953)	Education: Consett Grammar School; Manchester University (MSc); Pembroke College, Cambridge (PhD) [built an infrared spectrometer] late 1939 - (04.)1946 Scientific and Technical Staff at Admiralty Research Laboratory, Scientific Research and Experiment Department, Admiralty (initially on loan from Air Ministry) (Teddington, Middlesex) [working on radar & Type F infrared rays recognition system to help Allied pilots distinguish enemy aircraft from their own planes at night] 1946 - 1948 Ministry of Defence 1948 - 1951 Department of Physical Research, Admiralty 1951 - 1955 Admiralty Research Laboratory 1955 - 1958 Director of Operational Research, Royal Naval Scientifice Service, Admiralty 1958 - 1960 Deputy Director, National Physical Laboratory 1960 - 1965 Director, Stations and Industry Division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 1965 - 1970 Deputy Controller (R), Ministry of Technology 1970 - 1971 Head of Research Services, Department of Trade and Industry 1971 - 1974 Director, Admiralty Research Laboratory, Teddington (retired) Governor of Hampton School, and Captain and President of the Home Park Golf Club at Hampton Court.
Lister, Stanley Masterman Son (with one sister and one brother) of Oliver Lister (1865-), and Phoebe Ellen Shuker (1874-). Married ((06?).1935, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire) May Stanley (08.07.1908 - 03.2002), daughter of Harry Stanley (1886-1936), and Florence Casswell (1887-1959); two sons.	(12?).1903 Rotherham district, Derbyshire / Yorkshire - 27.04.1950 The Harwich and District Hospital, Dovercourt, Essex	A/Assistant Armament Supply Officer 1944?	Assistance Clerk, Unemployment Assistance Board, 10.1936. c.1940 - 1944 served (not in officer capacity) with the Admiralty in Bath and Corsham Armaments Depot 04.02.1944 - (07.1945) Armament Depot, Bermuda (04.1946) - (10.1947) Mine Depot, Wrabness (Harwich)

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Mathieson, Wyndham David	27.10.1916 - 04.1991 Mid Devon	T/Technical Adviser ?	(07.1945) - (04.1946) Armament Depot, Melbourne Headquarters
Maxwell, Maurice Edward	(06?).1917 Belfast district, Northern Ireland -	T/Experimental Officer ?	Education: Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland (BSc). (08.1943) - (04.1946) Admiralty Signal Establishment (Haslemere, Surrey)
McGrath, Malcolm William Son (with one brother and one sister) of William McGrath (1886-), and May Parry (1884-). Married Frances Winifred Mary Hurst (21.02.1921 - 25.06.2005), daughter of ... Hurst, and Marion McLean (1900-); three daughters, one son.	02.11.1915 Birkenhead district, Cheshire - 16.09.1958 Greenwich district, London	Assistant Armament Supply Officer ? A/Deputy Armament Supply Officer 1940 T/Cdr. (Sp.Br.) RNVR 14.03.1945	10.1934     assigned, Executive Class, Admiralty 10.1934 - (07.)1935 Assistant Armament Supply Officer, RN Armament Depot Plymouth 11.1935 - (10.)1936 Assistant Armament Supply Officer, RN Armament Depot Plymouth 12.1936 - (07.)1937 Assistant Armament Supply Officer, RN Armament Depot Singapore 08.1937 - (08.)1939 Assistant Armament Supply Officer, RN Armament Depot Hong Kong 09.1939 - (04.)1940 Assistant Armament Supply Officer, RN Armament Depot Bermuda (detached) 22.06.1940 - (02.)1941 acting Deputy Armament Supply Officer, RN Armament Depot Dover (12.)1941 - (01.)1945 acting Deputy Armament Supply Officer, Department of the Director of Armament Supply, Admiralty (07.1945) - (04.1946) HMS Portland Bill (maintenance and repair ship)*       was also stationed in Port Royal, Jamaica and Amanzimatoti in South Africa and Canada during the war Post-war worked in Customs and Excise. * indexed, but not listed as such
Mills, George Jamieson	see:	RNVR officers' section
Moss-Blundell, Henry Seymour Son of late J. Seymour Moss­Blundell. Married (1910) Elizabeth Hilda, daughter of late A.E. Cumberbatch of Great Sarratt Hall, Herts; one son, one daughter.	06.12.1871 - 29.03.1947 Chipperfield, Hertfordshire	T/Civilian Adviser ? CBE 04.06.1917 Trade Division, Admiralty	Education: Rugby; St John's College, Cambridge WW I served (unpaid) in the Trade Division of the Admiralty (02.1941) - (07.1945) Temporary Civilian Adviser on staff of Principal British Naval Liaison Officer to Allied Navies [HMS President] Barrister­at­law; lately Deputy Chairman Herring Industry Board and previously Chief Inspector of Fisheries. LLD.

 

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Norton, John Richard Patrick	see:	RNVR Officers' section

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Oates, P G Residence: (1945) Surbiton, Surrey.	? -	Temp. Experimental Officer ?	Pre-war employed with Patent Office and Ministry of Shipping.       Degaussing Technical Officer (DGTO) Devonport & Levant Area ... - ... ...

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Pickles, Alan Turner	see:	RNVR officers' section
Prime, Harry Archibald Son (with four sisters and one brother) of Henry Alfred Prime (1863-1940), and Amy Beatrice Harris (1876-1947). Married (02.09.1934, Leigh, Wimborne district, Dorset) Gertrude Emily Stratten (20.01.1908 - 04.2000), daughter of Frederick Stratten (1874-1942), and Emily Elizabeth James (1880-1968); one daughter.	02.02.1907 Parkstone, Poole district, Dorset - 16.06.1968 Poole, Dorset	Temp. Experimental Officer ? (reld > 04.1947, < 10.1947)	Education: BSc. (08.)1943 - (04.)1947 HM Signal Establishment Gas Board employee.

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Randall-Cook, Clive	11.04.1909 - 06.1983	Technical Officer (06.1944)-(04.1945) Senior Technical Officer (07.1945)-(04.1946) OBE 11.06.1966 HM's birthday 66	GIEE. (06.)1944 - (04.1946) Signal Establishment

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Simpson, James Keay From Gillingham, Kent. Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).	01.07.1909 - 17.03.1981	A/Civil Engineer 31.08.1940? T/Cdr. (Sp.Br.) RNVR * 28.12.1944 * Special Branch officer who is employed on staff, etc., duties ashore, but has not received any training of an executive nature	Assoc.M.Inst. C.E. Civil engineer Dundee Harbour Trust. Assistant Civil Engineer, HM Dockyard, Chatham. 31.08.1940 - (10.1943) Civil Engineer, HM Dockyard, Portland (12.)1943 - (10.1944) Civil Engineer, later Officer-in-Charge of Works Deptford, Thames District, Works Districts (01.1945)     no appointment listed (04.)1945 - (07.1946) Civil Engineer, Australia, Works Districts
Skiinner, H E	? - ?	A/Chief Constructor ?	? - (07.1945) Department of the Director of Naval Construction
Speke, Frederick Robert Residence: (1945) Stroud, Gloucestershire.	24.05.1913 Stroud district, Gloucestershire - 01.2000 Luton district, Bedfordshire	Temp. Experimental Officer ?	Pre- & post-war teacher mathematics & science, Dunstable Grammar School.       Degaussing Technical Officer (DGTO) UK, inclusing Milford, Alexandria & Port Said ... - ... ...
Spender, Michael Alfred	see:	RAFVR officers' section
Stanger, F Residence: (1945) Canterbury, Kent.	? -	Temp. Experimental Officer ?	Pre- & post-war senior physics teacher & assistant house master, Kings School, Canterbury.       Temporary Experimental Officer, S.M.D., S.D.G. Bath, S.I.D.G. (L) ... - ... ...

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Thrower, Leonard Frederick Son of ... Thrower, and ... Clark. Married ((09?).1947, St Germans district, Cornwall) Ruby J. Harris. Residence: (1945) Norwich, Norfolk.	22.11.1918 Norwich district, Norfolk - (12?).1983 Weymouth district, Norfolk	Temp. Experimental Officer ?	Pre-war meter department, Norwich Corp. Elec.       Degaussing Technical Officer, Portsmouth, Port Said, Ismailia (specializing in testing and research all types of meters and electrical instruments) ... - ... ...
Turney, Arthur Allin Married ((06?).1917, Eton district, Buckinghamshire) Hilda Constance Halfacre (21.08.1898 - (06?).1982); one daughter, one son.	03.11.1896 Shercock, Bailieborough district, Ireland - (03?).1979 Barnstaple district, Devon	Temp. Experimental Officer ? (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)	WW I     Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery & Royal Engineers Set up in business producing and selling radios for sea-going yachts and schooners. (02.1943) - (07.1945) Admiralty Signal Establishment (Haslemere) (probably involved in D/F work in the Western Approaches) Marine watercolourist.

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Warrender, Sir Victor Alexander George Anthony	see:	Bruntisfield, 1st Baron
Wilkes, W Residence: (1945) Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.	? -	Temp. Experimental Officer ?	Pre-war electrician, Loathian Coal Co., Newton Grange, Midlothian.       general degaussing duties, including Alexandria, Port Said, Suez (specializing in electricity and collieries) ... - ... ...

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Yeo, Reginald Arthur Son (with two sisters and three brothers) of Henry Yeo (1857-), and Rosa Gates Doe (1867-1932). Married ((09?).1931, Hambledon district, Surrey / Sussex) Beatrice Rose Snelling ((06?).1907 - 1981), daughter (with three brothers and one sister) of Walter Edmund Snelling (1875-1968), and Beatrice Mary Spiers (1879-1952); two daughters, one son.	15.08.1904 Portsmouth, Hampshire - 01.04.1968 Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire	Junior Scientific Officer 02.01.1928 Scientific Officer 01.04.1933 A/Senior Scientific Officer 01.04.1942 Principal Scientific Officer 01.01.1946 Senior Principal Scientific Officer 01.11.1948	Education: Univeristy, London (BSc (Eng) [1st class honours]); ACGI, DIC [for research in telecommunications measurements]. 1920 - 1924 Electrical Apprentice, HM Dockyard Portsmouth 1924 - 1927 City of Guilds College London 1927 - 1928 5 months with Mullard Wireless Services Co. 02.01.1928 - 1944 HM Signal School, Portsmouth 1931 - 1935 research the design, development and use of very short waves range for the navy 1938 - 1944 responsible for the design and development of a high power H.F speech transmitter for the fleet incorporating new methods of frequency generation and modulation 1944 - 1946 Head of Aerial Division, Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment 1947     UK representative at the International Telecommunications & Radio Conference, Atlantic City 01.11.1948     Assistant Director in the Department of Research Programmes and Planning, Royal Naval Scientific Service 1953     UK representative at two conferences concerned with Commonwealth Defence, New Delhi 01.09.1953 - 1956 seconded for 2 years and an extension to Ministry of Supply for duty as Member of HM Ordnance Board and head of Electronics Division Member, Australian Broadcasting Control Board, Melbourne, 20.12.1956-(1962).

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