Henry Bertram Bateman died as the result of a shooting accident at Leigh, Kent, on October 7th, 1935, at the age of 56.
He entered the Royal School of Mines in 1896 and graduated with the Associateship of Mining, 1st Class, in 1899. For seven months after passing out of the School he was employed as a pupil of a consulting electrical engineer, but in 1900 he received at Commission in the Royal Garrison Artillery and served for 2½ years at Portsmouth, Madras, Rangoon and Aden.
He resigned with the rank of 1st Lieutenant and went to West Africa in 1902 as assistant mining engineer to the Ashanti Lands Co., Ltd. In the following year he obtained an appointment as assistant surveyor to Messrs. Baldwin & Bateman, Government Land Surveyors, at Pietersburg, Northern Transvaal, and also engaged in private work prospecting and reporting on mining properties.
In August, 1906, he went to South America, as assistant mining engineer to the Caylloma Silver Mines, Ltd, Arequippa, Peru. He was subsequently engaged in India, Burma, Gold Coast Colony, Russia and Portuguese East Africa.
He joined H.M. Forces at the outbreak of the Great War and served with the Royal Artillery in the Cameroons and East Africa. At the conclusion of hostilities he returned to England and engaged in consulting practice in London, and from 1926 onward was associated with the Elbouf Geophysical Company. In that connection he contributed to the Transactions of the Institution, as joint author with his associate, Mr. N. Gella, two papers on geophysical prospecting, ‘Note on an Electrical Investigation for Copper Ores in Roumania’, and ‘Note on an Electrical and Magnetic Investigation for Magnetic Ores, North Sweden’ (Trans., vol. xxxviii, 1928-29).
Mr. Bateman was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1898, and was transferred to Associateship in 1906.
Vol. 45, Trans I.M.M. 1935-36, p. 506
