Captain Harry Stuart Duncan, F.M.S.V.R., is reported to have died of dysentry and injuries while in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp at Kanyu on June 10th, 1943, at the age of 41.
He received his professional training at the Royal School of Mines from 1919 to 1922, and was awarded a first-class Associateship of the School and the degree of B.Sc. (London) with honours in Metallurgy. He was thereupon engaged as an assistant in the works and laboratories of Messrs. Walkers, Parker & Co., Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne, until in May, 1925, he took up the appointment of assistant chemist in the Pulau Brani smelting works of the Straits Trading Co., Ltd., Singapore, transferring to the position of works assistant two years later. He remained with the company until 1933, when he joined the staff of Anglo-Malayan Tin, Ltd., Rawang, F.M.S., and was at Rawang Tin Fields from 1937.
News was received in 1943 that he was a prisoner of war in Camp No.4, Thailand, and the report of his death was not received until January, 1946.
Mr. Duncan was elected a Student of the Institution in 1925, and was transferred to Associateship in 1928.
Vol. 56, Trans IMM 1946-7, pp.614-15
