JESSEP, ALEXANDER WILLIAM

Book of Remembrance entry

JESSEP, ALEXANDER WILLIAM. 1914.
Teachers' Coll.; 3rd year Agric.
3.3.16, Pte. A.A.M.C.; 2/Lt. 1.9.16; sailed with 120th How. Bty. 3.10.16; France, to 5th Div. Artillery 5.5.17; Lieut. 1.7.17; wounded and gassed 5.11.17 and invalided to England; back to France March 1918; again invalided 22.7.18; back in December, acting as Staff Capt. 5th Div. Arty. until unit demobilised in April 1919. Demob. 1.3.20.

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1892

Birth in Maffra -- VIC, Australia 27 March 1892
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Early education at Sale Grammar School, Sale, VIC, Australia
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Early education at Marshall College, Aberdeen, Scotland
1916

Military service as Private 3 March 1916
1920

Military service 1 March 1920
1922

Tertiary education at University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia 1922
1923

Tertiary education at Melbourne Teachers College, Parkville, VIC, Australia 1923
1924

Tertiary education at University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia 1924
1926

Principal at Burnley -- VIC, Australia 1926
1941

Government Botanist at Moorabbin -- VIC, Australia 1941
1941

Director at Melbourne Botanic Gardens -- VIC, Australia 1941
1953

Awarded Coronation Medal 1953
1963

Awarded T.A. Stewart Memorial Award 1963
1973

Awarded Royal Horticultural Society Gold Medal 1973
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Member of National Rose Society of Victoria
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Member of Australian Camellia Research Society
1991

JESSEP A.W. : Death 20 Mar 1991

Gender

Male