William Anthony Fairfax Barnes died in Johannesburg in January, 1935, of peritonitis, at the age of 27.
He held a commission in the Lincolnshire Regiment from 1926 to 1930, and in January, 1931, he commenced a three years’ diploma course at the Camborne School of Mines. On completion of that course he went to the Transvaal to take up an appointment on the Nigel mine, and was thus engaged when he contracted his fatal illness.
Mr. Barnes was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1933.
Vol. 45, Trans I.M.M. 1935-36, p. 506
