Cecil William Wicks has been officially recorded as having died on or about February 13th, 1942, as a result of the sinking of the S.S. Giang Bee.
He received his mining training at Sydney University from 1920 to 1923, graduating with the degree of B.Eng. (Min.). He began his career at the North mine (British Section), Broken Hill, N.S.W., where he was assistant surveyor from January to October, 1924, and from then on was employed by Austral-Malay Tin, Ltd., and associated companies in Malaya. He first spent three years on the prospecting staff and was appointed assistant manager to Kampong Kamunting Tin Dredging, Ltd., in April, 1928. He subsequently held the position of manager of Ulu Yam Tin, Ltd., for six months, and of Thabawleik Tin Dredging, Ltd., for the following six months, and was manager of Pungah Tin Dredging, Ltd., Siam, from 1930 to 1934. He was with Austral Malay Tin, Ltd., at Taiping, Perak from 1934 until the Japanese occupation of Malaya.
Mr. Wicks was elected to Associateship of the Institution in 1931.
Vol. 56, Trans IMM 1946-47, p.627
[The HMS Giang Bee was damaged by bombing during the day of February 13th, and in the evening was shelled by a Japanese destroyer and sank in the Banka Strait, off Sumatra.]
