Mabel Josephine Bancroft Mackerras (cropped)

Creator: Unidentified

Description: Mabel Josephine Bancroft. Born: 7 August 1896 Deception Bay, Queensland, Australia. Married Ian Murray Mackerras 1924. Died: 8 October 1971. Mabel Josephine Mackerras worked in the Division of Entomology, CSIR, Canberra, the LHQ Medical Research Unit in Cairns during World War II, and was Senior Parasitologist at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research until 1961. (Information taken from: Bright Sparcs Mackerras, Mabel Josephine (1896 - 1971), retrieved 29 October 2004 from www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P002188b.htm#top) See also negative number 180590.

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