Roland Noel Gilbert died on 22nd March, 1959, at the age of 73.
Between 1903 and 1906 Mr. Gilbert was student at the Camborne School of Metalliferous Mining and was awarded a first-class diploma of the School, and a second-class certificate for ore dressing of City and Guilds of London Institute.
Mr. Gilbert’s short professional career was spent in India where he went in 1906 to take up the position of engineer-in-charge of manganese mines in the Central Provinces, under an agreement with the Central India Mining Co., Ltd. Shortly afterwards he was appointed engineer in full control of a group of mines in the Beandara district, and in November, 1910, was transferred to Waraigoan Camp, Nagpur district, in charge of mines and the Thersa light railway, but moved back to the Bhandara district two years later in the position of engineer-in-charge of the company’s light railway at Dongei Camp, used for transporting manganese ore from the mines to the Bengal-Nagpur Railway. He continued in this position until 1919 but had to retire prematurely from mining in 1920 owing to ill health, and took up fruit farming in Norfolk. He had lived at Oulton Broad, Lowestoft, since 1935.
Mr. Gilbert joined the Institution as a student in 1906 and was elected an Associate Member in 1915.
Vol. 69, Trans IMM 1959-60, pp.198-199
