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S.R.H. Edge, first recipient of the Silver Jubilee Medal .
Figure 4: A.P. Gammie, first recipient of the Marsh Prize . After the War the Section decamped from London to the British Paper & Board Industry Research Association premises at St. Winifred’s, Kenley. 29 However, a fire on the night of 7 th November 1949 at the Kenley site “destroyed practically the entire Technical Section library, offices and records.” 30 Temporary quarters were set up elsewhere on the site, allowing for reconstruction to take place, and the Section set about trying to recreate its lost library with donations from around the world. Going into the 1950s, the minutes record two important events, the first being formation of a new ‘special interest group’, the Fundamental Research Committee. 31 The importance of research to the health and prosperity of the paper industry was one of the reasons for founding the Section just after WWI. Go forward three decades, and there was a realisation that applied research was not enough; there were fundamental
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