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B. Com 1sth computer engineering
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Herbert Wilson
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B. Wilson"s studies were interrupted by the First World War. Enlisting in the Australian Imperial Forces in 1915, he served at Gallipoli and in Egypt and France, being steadily promoted and rising to the rank of Major by the time of his demobilization in 1919. He was awarded the, the Belgian Croix de guerre and was appointed to the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. After the war Wilson married Myra Hester Smith in 1920.
Resuming his studies, he gained a Bachelor of Science in 1920 and a Master of Science in 1925.
This was followed by a career of lecturing on biological science, and especially botany. He died at his home in Caulfield, being survived by a son.
Membership
He was a member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, the Bird Observers Club, the Microscopical Society and the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, from the latter of which he was awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion in 1943.
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Australia