On this day, 100 years ago an IMechE member died, the last of our WWI casualties. Thomas Edward Goodeve OBE: 26th January Associate Member 1906; Member 1914. Manager and Assistant Locomotive Superintendent, Southern and Western Railway. Royal Engineers. Operations in Egypt, including Sollum. He was at the engagement at Agagir on 26/2/1916. Major, Egyptian Expeditionary Force. Buried, Damascus Commonwealth War Cemetery, Dimashq, Syria, Plot E4. Awarded: … Continue reading ON THIS DAY
On this day, 100 years ago an IMechE member died due to WWI. Robert Frearson Domleo: 10th December Graduate 1912. Apprenticed to Midland Railway. Lieutenant, Royal Engineers, Temporary 2nd Lieutenant (promoted 12 May 1917). 1919 Obituary Lieut. ROBERT FREARSON DOMLEO, R.E., was born at Breaston, Derbyshire, on 28th August 1892. He was educated at Derby School, and served his apprenticeship in the locomotive works and … Continue reading ON THIS DAY
On this day, 100 years ago an IMechE member died due to WWI John Vick Thomas: 3rd December Associate Member 1907. Chief Engineers Assistant, Mr Henry J Weaver. Lieutenant, Royal Engineers. Institution First World War Honour Roll We have not been able to find his cause of death but its important (and sad) to remember that the end of the War didn’t mean an end … Continue reading ON THIS DAY
On this day, 100 years ago an IMechE member died due to WWI. Henry Godfrey Andrews: 22nd November Associate Member 1909. Assistant Borough Electrical Engineer, Bournemouth. Commissioned Temporary Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 7/10/14, Temporary Lieutenant 28/2/15, Temporary Lieutenant Commander 1/7/15; Nelson Battalion Mediterranean Expeditionary Force 1/3/15-14/7/15. Ship ‘Greenol’. Gunshot Wound left leg, invalided to UK 13/9/15. Draft for British Expeditionary Force 18/1/18, joined Nelson … Continue reading ON THIS DAY
Sunday marks 100 years since the end of the First World War. The War created a seismic shift culturally, politically, geographically and technologically – its ramifications are still being felt. The necessity of the War brought with it huge advances in all sectors of engineering. Over the last 4 years we have been looking at how engineering and the War impacted each other. Engineers at War: from Home … Continue reading FIRST WORLD WAR
On this day, 100 years ago an IMechE member was killed in action. Albert Henry Gort: 6th November Graduate 1908. Apprenticed to the Locomotive Dept, Metropolitan Railway. Second Lieutenant, Royal Defence Corps, Territorial Force, 15/04/17. Temporary Lieutenant whilst Commandant Prisoner of War Camp, 09/01/18. Probate document states, died Eastern Command Hospital, Cambridge. 1919 Obituary Lieut. ALBERT HENRY GORT, Northamptonshire Regiment, was born at Felixstowe on … Continue reading ON THIS DAY
On this day, 100 years ago an IMechE member was killed in action. Robert Andrew Hatton: 23rd October Graduate 1902; Associate Member 1906. Engineering Assistant/Draughtsman, WT Henley’s Telegraph Co. Major (Acting Lieutenant Colonel), Royal Field Artillery, 123rd Siege Battery. Died of wounds, France. 1918 Obituary Major ROBERT ANDREW HATTON, R.F.A., was born in London on 27th July 1880, and was educated at the Grocers’ Company’s … Continue reading ON THIS DAY
On this day, 100 years ago an IMechE member was killed in action. Frederick Horace Reed: 23rd October Graduate 1918. Apprentice Marine Engineer to Vickers Naval Construction Works. Second Lieutenant, Royal Air Force, 6th Squadron. Death registered in Westbury-on-Severn. Note: evidently there was some confusion as to his death, see below. Also, Membership Form states, he was involved in the production of munitions and not … Continue reading ON THIS DAY
On this day, 100 years ago an IMechE member was killed in action. William Goodliff Scotcher: 15th September Graduate 1912; Associate Member 1918. Assistant Locomotive Superintendent, Central Argentine Railway, Captain, 50th and Lieutenant, 112 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Temporary 2nd Lieutenant, East Yorks Regiment. Awarded: Mentioned in Dispatches and Military Cross: ‘This decoration was awarded to William Goodliff Scotcher for an act or acts of … Continue reading ON THIS DAY
On this day, 100 years ago an IMechE member was killed in action. Bertram Hopkinson: 26th August Member 1904 (life member). Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mathematics, Cambridge. Colonel, Royal Air Force. Awarded: Companion of St Michael and St George. Killed in flying accident, England. 1918 Obituary Colonel BERTRAM HOPKINSON, C.M.G., F.R.S., was born in Birmingham on 11th January 1874, the eldest and only surviving … Continue reading ON THIS DAY
