Thomas Bennett Robert Meadmore was found on Saturday, April 27th, 1935, in the closed dickey-seat of his car on a lonely road between Potchefstroom and Johannesburg, Transvaal, stabbed through the heart. He was 40 years of age.
Shortly after leaving school he joined H.M. Forces, first in the Public Schools Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, then as a commissioned officer in the Machine-Gun Corps. In February, 1918, he was transferred to the Regular Indian Army, and he retired with the rank of Captain in January, 1923. The following year he was in the Royal Air Force. From 1925 to 1932, he was in Kenya, working his own farm, and in 1933 he returned to England to enter as a special student at the Camborne School of Mines. At the close of 1934, he went to South Africa to enter the service of the Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Co., Ltd.
Captain Meadmore was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1934.
Vol. 67, Trans IMM 1957-58, p.436
