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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-05-25 human Rosanne Walker updated 2025-11-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003660b.htm person Jensen John Klunder OBE AACR2 20 March 1884 17 February 1970 Place of Birth Bendigo, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia Public servant Sir John Jensen left school at 11. He began work as a messenger-boy in the Post Office and Telegraph Department in 1898 and rose through the clerical ranks to become secretary of both the Department of Munitions 1942-1948 and the Department of Supply and Development 1948-1949.

Born Bendigo, Victoria, 20 March 1884. Died Hawthorn, Melbourne, 17 February 1970. OBE 1938, Kt 1950. Educated Working Men's College (mathematics, engineering and chemistry). Foundation secretary, Munitions Supply Board, Department of Defence 1921, controller 1937-39; assistant-secretary, Department of Munitions 1940-42, secretary 1942-48; secretary, Department of Supply and Development 1948-49. Foundation chairman, Secondary Industries Planning Commission, Department of Post-War Reconstruction from 1943. Fellow (1929) and life member (1949), Australian Institute of Cost Accountants.

1938 1938 Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

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 'Jensen, John Klunder', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Jensen, John Klunder Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Jensen, Sir John Klunder (1884-1970), public servant Steven, Margaret Jensen, Sir John Klunder (1884-1970), public servant Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1996 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 14: 1940 - 1980 Di-Kel John Ritchie 564-565 Book: A History of Defence Science in Australia Wisdom, John A History of Defence Science in Australia Melbourne Defence Science and Technology Organisation 1995 Resource: Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Online Melbourne Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre 2000