Record

CodePX3053
Dates1893-1990
Person NameUsher; Harold Bench (1893-1990); Experimental officer in Department of Zoology at NHM
SurnameUsher
ForenamesHarold Bench
EpithetExperimental officer in Department of Zoology at NHM
ActivityMuseum staff: Usher joined the Museum as a Boy Attendant in the Department of Zoology in 1908 aged 15. In 1921 he was appointed clerical officer in the Zoological Department and in 1946 Experimental Officer. He remained on the Bird Section staff until his retirement in August 1953. His name is on the Roll of Honour board in the entrance hall at South Kensington as having served away in the First World War. After his retirement he worked on indexing of Ibis and Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club.
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DF/ZOO/208/77Staff file: Usher, Harold B 
WP/16/4/2Letter to William Greenell Wallace from H Bench Usher, BMNH Bird Section, London 
DF/PH/2/1/4/1Staff Group Photograph: 'The Establishment' (Full Staff Photograph) 
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