Uncle Bert was the eldest son of Albert Line and Mary Jane Quennell. He married Maidie and they had four children, but he spent most of his life in Africa and was a renowned Geologist. He died of a heart attack in Bristol, U.K. in 1985

POST WAR OCCUPATION
Assistant Company Director AWMM
Assistant Director for Lands and Mines, Trans-Jordan AWMM
Geologist AWMM
Senior Geologist, later director of Geological Survey, Tanganyika (1948 - 1960) AWMM
Geologist AWMM
Consulting Geologist, NZ (1960-65) AWMM
UNDP -Nigeria, Sudan AWMM
Consulting Work, Bristol AWMM

Son of Mary Jane Quennell and Albert Line Quennell.

Husband of Maidie Elsie Quennell.

Addresses at enlistment and on the Nominal Roll varies from 34 Thompson Road, Napier to C/o J.A. Harvey, 22 Thompson Road, Napier, New Zealand.

Served in Divisional Artillery; Sound-ranging troop, Counter-battery officer.

Family of four children - two sons, two daughters.

Retired to Bristol, but worked on publications and research until his death.

In 1997, the British Geological Survey opened an archive and his published work was put on to Internet (www.bgs.uk) AWMM
eg. Quennell, A.M.; McKinlay, A.C.M.; Aitken, W.G.. 1956 Summary of the Geology of Tanganyika: Memoir No. 1, Part 1, Introduction and Stratigraphy.


Quennell, Albert Mathison
(1906– ).
Former Director of the Geological Survey.
Albert Quennell was born at Dunedin, New Zealand, on 27 November 1906. He was educated at Otago Boys' High School, the University of Otago, and Victoria University College. Since 1948 he has worked in Tanganyika as a Senior Geologist. In 1952 he became Assistant Director of the Geological Survey, and Deputy Director two years later. From 1957 to 1960 he was Director. He has published Geology and Minerology of Trans-Jordan, The Lupa Goldfield, Tectonics of the Dead Sea Rift, The Bukoban System of East Africa. http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/expatriates-biographies/page-28

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