Rodon Ludford Burge
Rodon Ludford Burge (1882-1937)
1937 Obituary.[1]
Rodon Ludford Burge, elected an Associate Member in 1919, received his early education at Cheltenham and Malvern Colleges, and served his engineering apprenticeship at Swindon Works, as a pupil of the late W. Dean (C.M.E. of the G.W.R.) from 1900 to 1903. After taking a course at the University College, London, he returned to Swindon and entered the Drawing Office.
In 1911 he went to Canada and joined a Land Surveyor’s Company, but returned in September, 1913. In February, 1914, he went to the U.S.A, and was employed as a draughtsman in the Signal Engineer’s Office of the Chicago and Western Indiana R.R. at Chicago.
During the War he was present at the Battle of the Somme. He was incapacitated for some time and then served in Palestine on the Aleppo-Haifa Railway in charge of stores. At the Armistice he joined the staff of the Locomotive Publishing Co., with whom he remained until his health gave way.
He was born in 1882, and died on the 22nd April at the age of 55.