Leonard Stephen Wilson died in Freetown Hospital, Sierra Leone, on 3rd April, 1948, at the age of 30.
He received his technical training at the South East London Technical Institute from 1934 to 1940, and was a pupil under the late Mr. T.J. Taplin, M.Inst.M.M. In April, 1934, he entered the employment of Selection Trust, Ltd., as an assistant in the drawing office, and the following your he joined Britannia, Lead Co., Ltd., where he assisted Mr. Taplin on flotation research. From 1936 to 1940 he was a pupil in the works of Messrs. Fraser & Chalmers, Ltd., at Erith, and in 1940-41 worked at the Britannia lead works at Northfleet, Kent, for twelve months.
He took up the position of experimental assistant in the Projectile Development Establishment of the Ministry of Supply in May, 1911, and in the following year went, to the Gold Coast for Consolidated African Selection Trust, Ltd., but after two years had to leave owing to ill health. At the end of 1944 he obtained an appointment as works manager to the Feltham Sand and Gravel Co., Middlesex, but in June, 1946, he rejoined Selection Trust, Ltd., and was employed in the engineering department on the design of a new diamond washing plant for West Africa.
Mr. Wilson was elected to Studentship of the Institution in 1937 and was transferred to Associateship in 1947.
Vol. 58, Trans IMM 1948-49, pp.595-596
