D'Arcy Joseph Walter
D'Arcy Joseph Walter (1882-1910)
1910 Obituary [1]
D'ARCY JOSEPH WALTER was born at Edgbaston, Birmingham, on 15th March 1882.
He was educated at King Edward's Grammar School, Birmingham, and in 1896 commenced an apprenticeship of three years at Kynoch's Engineering Works.
From 1899 to 1902 he took a three years' course of Mechanical, Electrical and Civil Engineering at the University of Birmingham, and during college vacations he gained practical experience by going to sea as Third Engineer.
On leaving the University he was appointed Engineer and Assistant Manager to the British Assam Co., Assam, where he was responsible for repairs and extensions of the boilers, engines, light railways, bridges, etc.
In 1909 he was invalided home, and his death took place from the effects of malarial fever, on 12th September 1910, in his twenty-ninth year.
He became an Associate Member of this Institution in 1908.