Provenance
1 - Alan John (Jock) Marshall


Date Range17 February 1911 - 20 July 1967
Details

1911

- Born 17 February, Sydney, Australia (Childhood spent at Penshurst, a suburb of Sydney)

?-?

- Dumbleton Public (State) School

?-?

- Kogarah High School

1927

- Lost left arm in a shotgun accident

1929-

- Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales (Member)

1934

- Oxford University New Hebrides Expedition (Member, with Dr. John Baker and Tom Harrisson. Explored Espiritu Santo and was in charge of the biological base station.)

- The Sun, Sydney daily newspaper (Features writer)

1935

- The Australian Museum (Honorary ornithologist)

- University of Sydney (Mile walk champion and leader of the Science debating team)

1936

- Mandated and Dutch New Guinea Expedition (Member, doing research and exploration for a British committee?)

1937

- North West Spitsbergen Expedition (Organised and led the first crossing of the North West Peninsula of Spitsbergen)

- The Black Musketeers, the work and adventures of a scientist on a south sea island at war and in peace (Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London)

- While in England he wrote, lectured and made television broadcasts, and he also received a research grant from the Institute for Investigation of Animal Behaviour, London.

1938

- The Men and Birds of Paradise, Journeys through equatorial New Guinea (Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London)

- University of Sydney Biological Society (President)

- Pacific Islands Club, Sydney (President)

- University of Sydney (Undergraduate, completed Chemistry I, Geology I, Zoology I, and Psychology I)

- St. Paul's College, University of Sydney (Tutor)

- ABC (Science Session participant)

- Pacific Islands Club (President)

1939
- University of Sydney (Undergraduate, completed Zoology II, Genetics I and Physiology I)

- The Daily Telegraph (Special writer and principal book reviewer)

Sydney University Science Association publications (Editor)

1939-1940

- University of Sydney, Department of Zoology (Student demonstrator)

1940

- University of Sydney (Undergraduate, completed Zoology III and Physiology II, and qualified for the degree of B.Sc.)

1940-1941

- St Paul's College, University of Sydney (Resident tutor in zoology, and Grainger Post-graduate Scholar)

1941

- St Paul's College, University of Sydney (Acting Sub-Warden Michaelmas term)

- The Daily Mirror (Special writer)

- Hermes Sydney University magazine (Editor)

- Married 10 March, Joy Lyall Wood (One daughter, Nerida. Marriage dissolved 1948)

- Australia Limited (Published)

- Army Education Service

1941-1945 War Service

Commonwealth Military Forces

- Date of first appointment October 1941

- Staff Captain (Education) Lieutenant HQ, 1 Australian Division October-November 1941

- Attached to 1a Eastern Command December 1941 - January 1942

- Attached to 1t HQ First Australian Army January - August 1942

Australian Infantry Forces

- Date of transfer March 1942

- Attached to 1t HQ First Australian Army January-August 1942

- Attached "I" HQ New Guinea Force September 1942 - January 1943

- Liaison Officer HQ 6 Australian Division January 1943 - ?

- Commanded Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols [L.R.R.P.] in the Gulf of Carpentaria and on Cape York Peninsula, 1942

- Sometime Officer commanding "A" Company, 2/2nd Australian Infantry Battalion, A.I.F., 1944

- Australian Imperial Forces Intelligence Corps, 2/2 Infantry Battalion, 16th Brigade, 6th Division, commanded a company, Z Special Unit - Jockforce which went behind enemy lines in New Guinea during the Wewak campaign, 1945

1945

- Testament of Doubt (Published)

1947

- Oxford Exploration Club, Arctic Club (Member)

- Oxford University Jan Mayan Expedition (Leader)

1948

- Royal Geographical Society of London (Back Award "for exploratory and scientific work" in the Arctic, 1947)

1948-1949

- Oxford University (Beit Memorial Research Fellow, D.Phil.)

- Oxford University, Department of Agriculture (Demonstrator in zoology and animal physiology)

1949

- Oxford University (Graduated Doctor of Philosophy in October. Thesis: Studies in the Sexual Periodicity in Vertebrates)

1949-1960

- St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, University of London (Reader in Zoology and Comparative Anatomy)

1950

- Married 13 May, Jane Graham (One son and two daughters)

1954

- Bower Birds - their Displays and Breeding Cycles (Published by Clarendon Press, Oxford)

1955-

- American Ornithologist's Union (Corresponding Fellow)

1955

- East African Fisheries Research Organization, Lake Victoria (Visiting scientist, supported by the Colonial Office)

1956

- Oxford University (D.Sc.)

- East African Fisheries Research Organization, Lake Victoria (Visiting scientist, supported by the Colonial Office)

1958

- Royal Australasian Ornithologist's union (Appointed Honorary Fellow)

1959

- University of California (Lida Scott Brown Lecturer)

1960

- Yale University (Trumbull Lecturer)

- Biology and Physiology of Birds (Published by Academic Press, New York)

1960-1967

- Monash University (Foundation Professor of Zoology and Comparative Physiology, Dean of Science)

1962

- A Textbook of Zoology, Volume II (Published by Macmillan and Company)

1967

- Monash University (Naming of the 'Jock Marshall Zoology Reserve')

- Died 20 July, Melbourne, Australia


Published by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre on AustehcWeb, May 2004
Listed by Gavan McCarthy, Oscar Manhal, Bill King, Leigh Swancott, Mark Scillio and Rosanne Walker
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