Francis Turquand Mansfield died in a nursing home at Croydon on January 10th, 1922, from phthisis, aged 31 years, having just returned to England from an expedition into the country beyond the Sudan.
He was educated at Tonbridge School and entered the Royal School of Mines in 1905, receiving his Associateship and Diploma of the Imperial College in 1912. During the latter part of his time he was assistant demonstrator in mine-surveying under Professor L.H. Cooke, which duty he resumed for a short time after a brief interval as assistant to Mr. A.G. Charleton.
In June, 1913, he received an appointment as assistant manager and surveyor at Spawood Ironstone mines, Cleveland, when he made a complete survey of royalties and workings and a new co-ordinate mine plan.
In September, 1914, he enlisted in the Artists Rifles and was gazetted two months later to the 3rd Royal West Kent Regiment. He served in France with the 4th Middlesex and the 1st Gn. Batt. of the Hants Regiments, being afterwards transferred to the 171st Tunnelling Co. of the RE.
On demobilization, he accepted an appointment with the Nile-Congo Divide Syndicate, Ltd., operating in the Sudan and beyond, and it was after accomplishing his work in that connection that he returned home and succumbed to an attack of phthisis.
Mr. Mansfield was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1911 and transferred to Associateship in 1917.
Vol. 32, Trans IMM 1922-23, pp.291-2
