Francis Hartley Gill died of fever in British Guiana on October 8th, 1930.
On leaving Rugby School, he received his technical training at the Camborne School of Mines, and on completing his course there in 1907 became assistant to Captain J.S. Henderson, Surveyor, of Camborne and Truro. In 1909 he went to South Africa and for a year was sampler and surveyor at the Crown mine and Henry Nourse mine, Johannesburg. Thence he went to Rhodesia in 1910, where he was employed successively on the Thistle-Etna, Golden Kopje, Bell Reef and Wanderer gold mines.
From 1917 to 1919 he served in France with the 2nd Rhodesian Regiment, and on the conclusion of the War he returned to Rhodesia where he was engaged in prospecting, developing and milling at the Ventura gold mine and on his own claims at Lomagundi. In 1925 he removed to Tanganyika Territory where for three years he was manager on diamond claims for the Tanganyika Goldfields, Ltd. In 1929 he went to Canada to report on properties for the Anglo-Western Mining Syndicate, in British Columbia, and later proceeded to British Guiana on a prospecting trip.
Mr. Gill was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1909 and was transferred to Associateship in 1914.
Vol. 40, Trans IMM 1930-31, p.451
