Thomas Reginald Stancombe
Thomas Reginald Stancombe
1922 A.M.I.E.E., Electrical Engineer, 11, Osborne Avenue, Ashley Down, Bristol; b. 1877. Ed. Plymouth College. Articled pupil to Borough Engineer and Surveyor, Plymouth; Architecture, Plymouth School of Art; Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Plymouth 3' Technical College. 1900-2—Mechanical Draughtsman and Switchboard Attendant, Plymouth Corporation Electricity Works. 1902-4 — Engineer-in-Charge, Wimbledon Corporation Electricity and Destructor Works. 1904-11 — Chief Assistant Electrical Engineer, Barnsley Corporation Electricity Works. 1911-12 — Electrical Power Engineer, Yorkshire Power Company, Dewsbury, Yorks. 1912-13 — Installation Engineer, City of York Electricity Works. Since 1913 — Senior Power Engineer, Sales Department, Bristol Corporation Electricity Department. War Services.— March, 1916—Lieutenant, Army Ordnance Department; passed course as Inspector of Ordnance Machinery at Ordnance College, Woolwich, and appointed Inspector of Ordnance Machinery, third class, at Portsmouth. 1917 — Ordered to France as Inspector of Ordnance Machinery, third class; promoted Captain and Inspector of Ordnance Machinery, second class, March, 1917, continuing as such till demobilization, May, 1919, with rank of Captain,. R.A.O.C. Twice mentioned in Dispatches, viz., " London Gazette," December, 1917, and December, 1918.