Person:Russell Dumas (1)
Russell John Dumas
b.17 Jan 1887 Mount Barker, South Australia, Australia
d.10 Aug 1975 Albany, Western Australia, Australia
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m. 1 Aug 1883
  1. Victor Charles Maxwell Dumas1884 - 1943
  2. Russell John Dumas1887 - 1975
  3. Constance Elizabeth Dumas1889 -
  4. Sir Frederick Lloyd Dumas1891 - 1973
  5. Una Kathleen Paltridge Dumas1893 -
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Name Russell John Dumas
Gender Male
Birth? 17 Jan 1887 Mount Barker, South Australia, Australia
Death? 10 Aug 1975 Albany, Western Australia, Australia
Reference Number Q7381471 (Wikidata)

BIOGRAPHY: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140048b.htm

After winning a bursary to complete his schooling at Prince Alfred College, Russell studied engineering at the University of Adelaide (B.Sc., 1909; Dip.Elec.E., 1910; B.E., 1913; M.E., 1931). On 11 April 1910 he began work as a draughtsman in the South Australian Engineer-in-Chief's Department and from July 1912 was employed designing drainage-works at Naracoorte.

Enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force on 26 January 1916, Dumas was commissioned in June. He served on the Western Front in 1917-18, mainly with the 5th Field Company, Engineers, rose to lieutenant and was twice wounded. His A.I.F. appointment terminated in Australia on 16 November 1919. Next day he resumed his former job. As assistant resident engineer (from 1923 resident engineer), he helped to build locks on the Murray River.

At St Paul's Anglican Church, Naracoorte, on 2 November 1920 Dumas had married Muriel Elsie Rogers (d.1960), a nurse. With their two children, in 1925 they moved to Western Australia where he took up an appointment with the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage Department as resident engineer on the construction of Churchman Brook Reservoir, the first of several proposed dams in the hills that were designed to supply Perth's demand for water. ...

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  1.   Russell Dumas, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

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    Sir Russell John Dumas KBE, CMG (17 January 1887 – 10 August 1975) was a public servant and engineer who led several large works projects in Western Australia.

  2.   http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140048b.htm, in Austrailian Dictionary of Biography.
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