Thomas Woodford Gilbert died at Selukwe, Southern Rhodesia, on March 1st, 1943, at the age of 58.
After working for a year in the Government Mines Office at Bulawayo, he entered the South African College, Capetown, where he became a mining student for two and a half years, leaving in 1906 to join East Gwanda Mines, Southern Rhodesia, as learner in the cyanide mill. In 1907 he was reduction officer to the Wolfshall Syndicate, Selukwe, and in 1908 he resumed his studies, this time at the South African School of Mines and Technology, Johannesburg, obtaining the full Diploma in Metallurgical Engineering in 1910.
From 1911 to 1913 he was employed at several Transvaal mines, and in the latter year joined the staff of Randfontein Central G.M. Co. as mine captain on the Robinson shaft. He resigned his post to join the Army in 1915, becoming a Captain in the 10th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. After the war he was engaged in mining on the Witwatersrand and in Rhodesia, and joined the Wanderer Consolidated Gold Mines, Ltd., Selukwe, in 1932. He was manager of this company at the time of his death.
Mr. Gilbert was elected a Student of the Institution in 1910, and was transferred to Associateship in 1918.
Vol. 53, Trans IMM 1943-4, pp.429-30
