P007688 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

All key entry types: Awards; Concepts; Corporate Bodies (Organisations); Cultural Artefacts; People; etc

These key entries are listed separately below with other indexes and lists.

 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2025-05-08 human Ken McInnes updated 2025-11-06 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007688b.htm person Nevill William Frederick AACR2 1879 5 May 1951 Place of Birth Casterton, Victoria, Australia Place of Death East Malvern, Victoria, Australia Hydraulic engineer Sanitary engineer Civil engineer Fred Nevill, BCE CE, Divisional engineer, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, took a leading role in the management of irrigation districts, the construction of rural water supply systems and the introduction of rural sewerage schemes. He served as a Commissioner of the Royal Commission on Sanitation in 1926, and presented at the First Commonwealth Conference on Public Health Engineering in 1927. In 1934 he wrote a descriptive and technical summary of the water supply and sewerage systems of country towns in Victoria. 1904 1904 Education - Bachelor of Civil engineering (BCE), University of Melbourne 1904 1906 Career position - Mining engineer and surveyor, Ivanhoe Gold Mine, Western Australia 1906 1908 Career position - Consulting engineer, Californian Irrigation Districts, USA c. 1909 1915 Career position - Office-in-charge, Shepparton Irrigation District, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission 1911 1911 Career event - Granted Certificate of Qualification as Municipal Surveyor (CE), Local Government Act 1903 VIC 1915 1917 Military service - First World War. Sapper, 5th Field Company Engineers, Australian Imperial Force [Injured in action, in France] 1917 1920 Career position - Officer-in-charge, Cohuna and Gannawarra Irrigation District, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission 1921 1922 Career position - Officer-in-charge, Red Cliffs Irrigation District, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission 1922 1926 Career position - Engineer, Central office, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission 1925 1926 Career position - Commissioner, Royal Commission on Sanitation 1927 1927 Lecture - Presented two lectures, First Commonwealth Conference on Public Health Engineering, Melbourne 1927 c. 1937 Career position - Engineer for Waterworks and Sewerage Trusts, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission 1938 c. 1944 Career position - Divisional engineer, Main Urban Water supplies, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission c. 1944 c. 1944 Life event - Retired 'Nevill, William Frederick', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Nevill, William Frederick Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Parliamentary paper: Report of the Royal Commission on Sanitation, 1926 Royal Commission on Sanitation Report of the Royal Commission on Sanitation, 1926 Melbourne H. J. Green, Government Printer 1927 Parliamentary paper: Interim report of the Royal Commission on Sanitation, 1926 Royal Commission on Sanitation Interim report of the Royal Commission on Sanitation, 1926 Melbourne H. J. Green, Government Printer 1926 Conference Paper: A brief outline of the legislation governing town water supplies in the State of Victoria Nevill, William F. A brief outline of the legislation governing town water supplies in the State of Victoria 1928 Proceedings of the First Commonwealth Conference on Public Health Engineering, Melbourne, 19th - 27th September, 1927 22-24 Conference Paper: A brief outline of legislation governing public sewerage systems in the State of Victoria Nevill, William F. A brief outline of legislation governing public sewerage systems in the State of Victoria 1928 Proceedings of the First Commonwealth Conference on Public Health Engineering, Melbourne, 19th - 27th September, 1927 18-21 Journal Article: The water supply and sewerage of country towns Nevill, W. F. The water supply and sewerage of country towns 1934 Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia 6 10 385-388 Resource: B2455 First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920 CA 2001 Australian Imperial Force, Base Records Office B2455 First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920 National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch