Lieut. Peter Rooke Kingston, Royal Artillery, was killed in action in Italy in February, 1944, at the age of 29.
The only son of the late Dr. C.B. Kingston, Past-President, he read for the Mechanical Sciences Tripos at Cambridge University and obtained his B.A. degree in 1935. He then entered McGill University as a student in the Department of Mining Engineering, graduating B.Eng. in Mining in 1937.
In 1938 he was appointed to the study and planning department of the South African Land and Exploration Co., Ltd., at Brakpan; Transvaal, and on the outbreak of war joined the Mines Brigade of Engineers. When, with other members of the Brigade, he was released for full-time military service he obtained a commission in the South African Artillery, subsequently transferring to the Royal Artillery.
Mr. Kingston was elected a Student of the Institution in 1939.
Vol. 54, Trans IMM 1944-45, p.269
[Lieut. Peter Rooke Kingston died two months after his father, Charles Burrard Kingston]
