Henry Colenso Rodda
Henry Colenso Rodda (c1877-1946)
1946 Obituary [1]
HENRY COLENSO RODDA, M.0 ., was identified with the Great Western Railway Company for the whole of his professional career. He received his technical instruction at the North Wilts Technical Institute and at the conclusion of a seven years' apprenticeship in the works at Swindon in 1898 entered the drawing office. He was placed in charge of the boiler section in 1911. After three years' service as assistant he was made divisional locomotive superintendent in 1922.
Seven years later he became works manager in the locomotive repair shops at Wolverhampton, retiring in 1939. Mr. Rodda had a long record of service in the Territorial Force, extending to twenty-four years. He served in the South African War as a volunteer in the 2nd Battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment and during the 1914-18 War saw service in France with the Royal Engineers (T.), rising from colour sergeant-major to the rank of lieutenant.
Mr. Rodda, whose death occurred on 25th January 1946, in his sixty-ninth year, was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1913. He was also for some time assistant instructor in engineering at the North Wilts Technical Institute and during the early part of the 1939-45 war at Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Technical College.