Arnold Baker died at Coromandel, Mysore State, in January, 1920, aged 32 years.
Born in 1887, he was educated at Alleyn’s School, Dulwich, and entered the Royal School of Mines, South Kensington, in October, 1905. He passed out of the R.S.M. in June, 1908, having obtained the Associateship in Mining (First Class), and in the following December he went to India for a post-graduate course, under the auspices of the Institution; to the Ooregum Mine, where he rotated through the various departments until August, 1910. In the following month he entered into an engagement with the Ooregum Gold Mining Co. of India, Ltd., to serve as assistant underground agent for a term of three years. In March, 1913, however, shortly before the termination of the agreement, he was transferred, by consent, to the Balaghat Gold Mining Co., Ltd., with whom he engaged as chief surveyor and assistant agent for three years. This agreement was renewed on the expiration of the term, and he was still in the employment of the Company at the date of his death.
During the War he held a commission in the Kolar Gold Field Battalion of the Indian Defence Force, and he identified himself with much of the technical and social work on the Kolar Gold Fields throughout his residence there.
Mr. Baker was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1907, and was transferred to Associateship in 1913.
Vol. 30, Trans I.M.M. 1920-21, pp. 468-9
