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Marcel Aurousseau MC C. de G. (19 April 1891 in Woollahra, Sydney – 22 August 1983 in Sydney) was an Australian geographer, geologist, war hero, historian and translator.[1][2]
Aurousseau, who was of French and Irish descent, attended Sydney Boys High School alongside three students who were also later prominent in various fields: Arthur Wheen (an historian and translator), Raymond Kershaw (an economist), and Arthur McLaughlin (a medical practitioner).[3]
He began his scientific career as an "office boy" at the Australian Museum in Sydney.[1] While completing the Bachelor of Science course at the University of Sydney, Aurousseau won the University Medal in Geology.
In 1913, he was appointed to the position of assistant lecturer at the newly formed geology department of the University of Western Australia (UWA), in Perth.
- ^ a b Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 2004, "Aurousseau, Marcel" (subscription required) (4 September 2015).
- ^ G. J. McCarthy 2009, "Aurousseau, Marcel (1891-1983)" , Australian Encyclopedia of Science (4 September 2015).
- ^ John Ramsland, 2015, The Other Side of No Man’s Land: Arthur Wheen World War I Hero, Melbourne, Brolga Publishing, p. 310.