Stanley Crossland Bullock, M.C., died on October 8th, 1944, at the age of 63.
He started his career in 1898 with Messrs. Fraser & Chalmers, Engineering Works at Erith, Kent, and in 1905 he was appointed assistant engineer to Messrs. Bewick, Moreing & Co., a year later assisting in the examination of mining properties in Siberia. He studied metallurgy and assaying at the Birkbeck Institute about this time, and in 1907 he was sent to Australia on constructional and design work. He was engaged by the Broken Hill Junction North Silver Mining Co., Ltd., in 1909 as constructional engineer and chief draughtsman, and two years later, became assistant superintendent of the Spassky copper smelting plant in Siberia.
After some months of reporting on mining properties in the United Kingdom and Europe, Mr. Bullock took, up an appointment in 1913 as manager of Capella mine and mill at Collahuasi, Chile, in 1914 becoming general manager of the Poderosa copper mine.
He returned in 1915 to join the Army, and served with the B.E.F. in France in the 179 Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers, with the rank of Captain, and was awarded the Military Cross.
On demobilization in 1919, he became consulting engineer to the British Metal Extraction Corporation, and in 1924 went to Malaya where he was employed for three years by the Pahang Consolidated Co., Ltd., as mining engineer. He then worked in East Africa, for three years as manager of properties of Nigerian Consolidated Mines, Ltd., and for two years as manager to the Central African Exploration Co.
On his return to England in 1932, he was occupied in private professional business until 1935, when he joined the staff of the Saudi Arabian Mining Syndicate, Ltd. Two years later he became manager of Gabait Gold Mines, Ltd., in the Sudan, but returned to England in 1939 and took up a position with Murex, Ltd., on metallurgical work.
In 1940 he returned to Erith, to join a family business as transport manager and was also an active member of the Home Guard, in which he held the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
Mr. Bullock was elected a Student of the Institution in 1906, and was transferred to Associateship in 1911 and Membership in 1919.
Vol. 54, Trans I.M.M. 1944-5, pp. 259-60
