Sergeant Alexander Burns, F.M.S.V.F., is reported to have died in 1943 of sickness, probably cholera, while a prisoner of war, shortly after being sent to the Japanese rail road in Siam. He was 29 years of age.
When elected to Studentship of the Institution in 1939 he was in the fourth year of his course at the Otago University School of Mines, and early in 1940 he joined the staff of Raub Australian Gold Mining Co., Ltd., at Raub, Pahang, where he attained the position of mill manager. No news of him had been received after the Japanese occupation of Malaya, and it has since been learned that he was captured at the fall of Singapore.
Vol. 56, Trans I.M.M. 1946-7, p. 610
