Book of Remembrance entry
Not listed in the Book of Remembrance. Assistant Lecturer in Chemistry, Assaying, and Metallurgy, received a Commission in the AIF early in the War, but was not allowed to go on military service overseas as his expertise was required at home. His first war duty was approving chemical composition of all steel for shell work. After a year of that he left Australia as one of a draft of scientific workers. On arrival in Britain he was allocated to H.M. Factory Gretna, where he became a Manager of Section and was occupied in the various stages of gun-cotton drying, dehydration and solvent recovery, till the Armistice.
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1882Eastaugh F.A. : Life.Birth 26 Feb 1882
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1903Tertiary education at Unknown, London, England 1903
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1903Associateship 1903 at Royal School of Mines : Royal School Of Mines [ London England ]
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1907Assistant Lecturer & Demonstrator in Chemistry & Assaying at Camperdown -- Sydney, NSW, Australia 1907
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1909Demonstrator at Imperial College, University of London --, England 1909
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1916Military service at Gretna --, Scotland 1916
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1916Lecturer & Demonstrator at Camperdown -University of Sydney- NSW, Australia 1916
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1926Associate Professor Engineering Technology & Metallurgy at Camperdown -- Sydney, NSW, Australia 1926
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1938Professor of Engineering Technology at Camperdown -- Sydney, NSW, Australia 1938
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1969Eastaugh F.A. : Death 23 Jul 1969
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![Letter from CSIR 4 September 1946 [ jpg ]](https://expn-omeka.performx.com.au/files/medium/0d59334bc1e84b974ce0e189f84250cf3755450c.jpg)
![Letter from Eastaugh on Sydney University letterhead, 8 December 1947 [ jpg ]](https://expn-omeka.performx.com.au/files/medium/5ed974cbb15646f3c2a246cb714389d433fece56.jpg)
![Letter from Eastaugh 26 February 1952 [ jpg ]](https://expn-omeka.performx.com.au/files/medium/d45eef13f2472f574714d2564f09555b74280f6c.jpg)
![Letter from Eastaugh thanking Senate 5 August 1955 [ jpg ]](https://expn-omeka.performx.com.au/files/medium/3e1e4d4e03fb02360e54e9d59876a12a62a061c7.jpg)
![Letter from Eastaugh 12 September 1958 [ jpg ]](https://expn-omeka.performx.com.au/files/medium/3498eb15633168516c0827928ef75d55ac25c695.jpg)
![Letter from Bertram Blount to Eastaugh [ jpeg ]](https://expn-omeka.performx.com.au/files/medium/7809ea7d65ee2ef352b521487efbd05f4b2c793d.jpg)
![Letter CSIR 5 August 1946 [ jpg ]](https://expn-omeka.performx.com.au/files/medium/59687071531786d48fa262f0e7762e9857448fb7.jpg)
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