Hereward Bosworth Hall is presumed to have died on or about February 13th, 1942, as a result of enemy action during the evacuation from Singapore.
He was a student at Armstrong College, University of Durham, from 1919 to 1922, and obtained a B.Sc. degree in non-ferrous metallurgy. He was employed from 1924 on general metallurgical chemistry, mainly on tin ores, slags and metal, by the Straits Trading Co., Ltd., of Singapore, first as assistant chemist for four years, then as chemist for ten years. In 1935 he was designated works chemist and a year later was appointed works assistant to the company. In 1939 Mr. Hall returned to England in the position of works manager to The British Tin Smelting Co., Ltd., at Liverpool, but rejoined the Straits Trading Co. in Singapore in 1940.
No news of him having been received since the fall of Singapore, the Colonial Office have reluctantly concluded that there can no longer be any hope of his survival.
Mr. Hall was elected to Associateship of the Institution in 1928.
Vol. 56, Trans IMM 1946-47, pp.618-19
