Reginald Walter Partridge was reported ‘missing, believed killed’ towards the end of May, 1915, whilst serving in the Canadian Scottish Battalion near Festubert.
From September, 1902, to December, 1904, he was a student at Henderson’s School of Mining at Truro, where he gained a first-class certificate for mine surveying and mining, and on completion of that course he came to London, to study assaying, metallurgy and mineralogy under the late Mr. G.T. Holloway.
In January, 1906, he returned to Cornwall as assistant to Messrs. W.F. Simmons, Hodge & Co., of Truro. Fifteen months later he was appointed assistant engineer on the staff of the Indian Mineral Exploration Co., Ltd., operating in the Nizam’s Dominions and the Madras Presidency.
In April, 1909, he became assistant underground agent and surveyor to the Balaghat Gold Mining Co. at Coromandel, S. India, but he returned to England a year later to take up a post on the uranium mine, Grampound Road, Cornwall, on behalf of the British Radium Institute. In July, 1910, he went to Nigeria as assistant engineer to the Tin Areas of Nigeria, Ltd., and in 1918 he went to British Columbia.
After the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Canadian Scottish Battalion, and he was recommended for a commission at the time of his death.
Mr. Partridge was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1905, and transferred to Associateship in 1912.
Vol. 31, Trans I.M.M., 1921-3, pp.581-2
