Harold William Metcalfe died in Suffolk at the close of the year 1928, at the age of 50.
In 1901 he went to the Federated Malay States as mining and general assistant to Mr. F. Douglas Osborne, and in May of the following year he was appointed acting manager of the Gopeng Tin Mining Co., whilst holding Mr. Osborne’s power of attorney during his absence in England. In June, 1902, he was appointed mine manager of the New Gopeng, Ltd., mine at Gopeng, Perak, and in 1906 held the same position with the Redhills Tin Mining Co., Ltd., at Papau.
In 1907 he was admitted to partnership in the firm of Osborne and Chappel, consulting engineers and general managers of the above-mentioned properties and of the Seremban, Kinta, Rambutan, Tekka, and Pengkalen Mines. During the War he obtained a Commission in the Royal Engineers, and was awarded the O.B.E.
Mr. Metcalfe was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1908 and was transferred to Membership in 1910.
Vol. 39, Trans IMM 1929-30, p.698
