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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 | JOHNS | | | Given names | Sir William Arthur | | | Awards | CB (1917), CIE (1910), A.M.I.C.E. | | | Birth | 6 December 1858 | | | Death | 2 June 1918, aged 59 yrs, at Combe, Co. Down | | | Fathers name | Alexander Johns | | | Primary Education | Uppingham | | | Term at CH | 1877-80 | | | Sports career | Rugby colours | | | Academic achievements | Passed for the Indian Public Service as assistant engineer, 2nd grade | | | Career | Posted to State Railways. Executive engineer 1891. Deputy consulting engineer Gov't. of India 1901. Junior consulting engineer 1903. Superintending engineer 1906. Chief engineer Oudh & Rohilkhand Railway 1910. Engineer in chief Quetta Nushki Railway. Boundary Commission 1902-03 | | | Military & War Service | Extract from a despatch from Lieut. Gen. J.C. Smuts, Commander in Chief East African Force, describing the operations in E. Africa 1916. "" The rapidity of the advance and the distance to which it was carried, must almost inevitably have caused a breakdown in the transport had it not been for the unremitting exertions of the railway engineers, who carried forward the railway from the Njore Drift, E. of Salaita, to Taveta and the Latema Nek, at an average rate of a mile a day, including surveying, heavy bush cutting and the bridging of the Lumi River. This fine performance is largely due to the ripe experience and organising power of Col. Sir W. Johns CIE; Appointed Director General of Transportation with the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, but died when about to sail to take up his duties | | | Ref | Coopers Hill Mag. X 15 & Obit XI 3 |
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