Alexander George Campbell died at Brighton, Melbourne, Australia, on July 5th, 1936, at the age of 48.
He received his technical training at Ballarat School of Mines, during the period 1907 to 1909, and obtained an Associateship in mining engineering. Until the outbreak of war he held positions at Broken Hill, New South Wales, and Mount Morgan, Queensland.
From 1915 to 1919 he was on active service with the Australian Infantry, retiring with the rank of captain, the D.S.O., mention in despatches and a record of three times wounded.
For a year, 1920-21, he was surveyor and mining engineer to the Burma Corporation, Northern Shan States, and then returned to New South Wales to take up the position of general manager to Broken Hill Proprietary Block 10. In 1923 he started in practice as a consulting engineer, and in the course of his work visited and reported on mines in all the eastern states of Australia and Papua, and for two-and-a-half years he was also employed in investigating and promoting the uses of rubber in mining.
He was director of a number of mining companies, including North Broken Hill, Ltd. Block 14, Zinc Producers’ Association, New Guinea Copper Mines, Ltd. Block 14, Torrington, Mount Isa South, and others.
Mr. Campbell was elected a Member of the Institution in 1931.
Vol. 49, Trans I.M.M. 1939-40, p. 733
