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Register of Students Admitted to The Royal Indian Engineering College Coopers Hill 1871-1906
Date transcribed | 2012-05-21 | Transcribed by | Robert Charnock | Comment | Vol 1 F.W. Abbatt to RHE Hutton-Squire
At a meeting of the Coopers Hill Society in 1959 the lack of any biographical record of students admitted to the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill, was discussed. This register is an attempt to complete a record. It may be regarded as an appendix to ‘A Short History of the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill’ by J.G.P. Cameron, C.I.E., issued by the Coopers Hill Society for private circulation in 1960.
The names of the students admitted have been taken from the calendars published annually by authority and preserved in the library of the India Office, Whitehall. The biographical details have been compiled mainly from information in the magazines mentioned on page 28 of Cameron’s History.
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| Surname | De SMIDT | | Given names | Gerald Ewald Overbeck | | Awards | Lieut. Col. DSO (1917) | | Birth | 1885, at Cape Town | | Primary Education | Brighton College | | Term at CH | 1903-06 | | Sports career | Association football team 1903-04 | | Academic achievements | Passed for Indian Public Service as assistant superintendent, Telegraph Dept. | | Career | Director General Posts & Telegraphs, Mesopotamia 1919-22. Assistant Director in Chief Indo European Telegraphs, India Office 1922-24. Superintendent N.W. Railway Telegraphs 1925-27. Postmaster General Burma 1936-42 | | Military & War Service | Abor Expedition 1911-12 (dispatches). WW1 Mesopotamia 1915-19 (dispatches) | | Other | Klein Turn, Covelley Road, Kalk Bay, Cape Town, S. Africa | | Ref | Who's Who 1958 |
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