Ernest Sidney Strong
Ernest Sidney Strong (1868-1919)
1919 Obituary [1]
ERNEST SIDNEY STRONG was born in Bombay on 16th July 1868.
He was educated at various private schools in England and at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College during the period of his apprenticeship, which was served with Messrs. Alley and MacLellan, Glasgow, during 1883-1888.
In the following year he worked in the firm's drawing office, and in the erecting shop, and spent six months in the drawing office of the North British Railway at Cowlairs.
In January 1891 he joined the locomotive staff of the Indian State Railways, and was transferred in the following year to the North Western Railway. He officiated for three months in 1896 as district locomotive superintendent of the Karachi District, and during 1897-8 acted in the same capacity in the Sukkur District.
He was next appointed district locomotive superintendent of the Saharanpur District and Locomotive Shops, and held this post until 1902 when he was transferred to the Oudh and Rohilkund Railway, having charge of the Moradabad District.
In February 1911 he returned from leave and was posted as district locomotive superintendent at Rawalpindi. There he served, except for a brief interval in England, throughout the War, assisting the military and civil authorities.
Subsequently he was transferred to Saharanpur where his death took place on 9th April 1919, in his fifty-first year.
He joined the North Western Railway Volunteer Rifles in 1892, and had the rank of Major in the Corps, in which he was serving at the time of his decease. He also held the V.D.* Decoration.
He was elected a Member of this Institution in 1910.
- Volunteer Officers Decoration