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George Brunswick Bell Baser

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George Brunswick Bell Baser (1890-1930)


1930 Obituary [1]

GEORGE BRUNSWICK BELL BASER was trained as a marine engineer, and, after serving an apprenticeship at the Wallsend Slipway Engineering Works and graduating from Armstrong College, Newcastle, he had gone to sea with the intention of obtaining a Board of Trade certificate when the War broke out.

After a period in France on active service he was discharged owing to ill-health, but in 1917 he was recommissioned as a lieutenant and appointed assistant inspector in the London District for the War Office.

Immediately after the War he lectured to wounded officers at Cambridge University and in 1919 he was appointed assistant lecturer in engineering at the Swansea Technical College, where he remained for eight years.

In 1927 Mr. Baser came to London to take up a similar post at the Wandsworth Technical Institute.

He was born at South Shields in 1890 and became an Associate Member in 1917.

His death occurred on 14th November 1930.




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