William Henry Goldsworthy died on 28th August, 1947, at the early age of 22.
He was educated at Penzance County School from 1936 to 1941, and went to Dolcoath Technical School for a short time before entering the Camborne School of Mines in November, 1942. He took the Associateship course and gained the A.C.S.M. in 1945, taking up an appointment with the Mines Department, Nigeria, in 1946. He was at Jos, Northern Nigeria, for a few months and at Ibadan, Southern Nigeria, from March, 1947.
He had arrived in England on leave and had made a short stay in London before going to his home at St. Erth, Cornwall. Five days afterwards he was taken ill with infantile paralysis [poliomyelitis], from which he died.
He was elected to studentship of the Institution in 1945.
Vol. 57 Trans IMM 1947-8, p.473
