Arthur Cecil Perry is presumed to have died on or about February 13th, 1942, as a result of the sinking of the S.S. Giang Bee, no favourable news having been received since the cessation of hostilities and the subsequent liberation of prisoners of war and internees in the Far East. He was about 55 years of age.
He received his professional training at the Camborne School of Mines from 1903-1907, and then spent a year at the Botallack mine, Cornwall.
Practically the whole of his subsequent career was spent in Malaya, beginning when he travelled there early in 1909 to take up a position at Bundi tin mine for Messrs. Guthrie & Co. After fourteen months he joined the staff of Rambutan, Ltd., and Pengkalen, Ltd., as assistant on the Gopeng tin mine under the direction of Messrs. Osborne & Chappel. He remained at Ipoh for some years, subsequently working at Batu Gajah from 1928 to 1933. He was then for two years employed by Minerals Exploration, Ltd., at Penang, and in 1936 went to Malim Nawar for Anglo-Oriental (MaIaya),. Ltd. Mr. Perry then spent a year at Bhuket, West Siam, on the staff of Tongkah Harbour Tin Dredging, Ltd., and some months with Tavoy Prospectors, Ltd., at Mergui, Lower Burma. He came to England in 1939, but rejoined Anglo-Oriental (Malaya), Ltd. at Kuala Lumpur in September, 1939.
No news of his whereabouts could be obtained throughout the war, and notification of his presumed death was received from the Colonial Office in March, 1946.
Mr. Perry was elected a Student of the Institution in 1908 and was transferred to Associateship in 1912.
Vol. 56, Trans I.M.M., 1946-7, pp.623-4
*On passage Singapore to Australia, the British steamship Giang Bee was attacked and damaged by Japanese aircraft and shelled and sunk by Japanese destroyers in the Banka Strait.
