James Duncanson died at Buffelspoort, Transvaal, on September 13th, 1917. He was about 40 years of age, and since the beginning of the war had been serving in the Medical Corps of the South African Forces. He held the rank of Staff-Sergeant when, about two months before his death, he was discharged from the Army as medically unfit.
He received his professional training at the Royal School of Mines, and obtained the Associateship in 1899. In the following year he went to West Africa and held two appointments on the Gold Mines at Ashanti, the last of which terminated in 1903.
After a sojourn of some years in England, Mr. Duncanson obtained a position with the Witwatersrand Gold Mining Company, and went out to South Africa in 1907. He remained with this company until 1911, when he went to Rhodesia, and was engaged in gold mining near Salisbury for two years, returning to England in 1913.
Mr. Duncanson was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1899, and was transferred to Associateship in 1902.
Vol. 27, Trans IMM 1917-18, pp.393-4
