Edward Frank Harrison was born in Camberwell, England back in 1869. At fourteen he was apprenticed to a pharmacist, after training he was awarded a scholarship. As a student, he was awarded medals in chemistry, botany and materia medica. In 1891, he qualified as a pharmaceutical chemist where he became a demonstrator for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
When WWI started he tried to enlist in the British Army, but was rejected because of his age, which was 47. In 1915, the British Army was looking for chemists enlisting him with many others to find a defense for a certain new weapon being used. Sadly, he died two years later, he was 49 from pneumonia, just one week before Armistice Day.
What you may not know about Edward is that he is credited for the invention of the first serviceable gas mask.
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