Henry Peter Ortiger
Henry Peter Ortiger (c1910-1942)
1946 Obituary [1]
Major HENRY PETER ORTIGER, R.E.M.E., was educated at St. George's College, Mussoorie, India, and served his apprenticeship in the locomotive works of the East India Railway at Jamalpur, from 1927 to 1932, and concurrently attended classes at the railway company's technical school.
He then came to England, and after completing his education at the Newark Technical College, and serving a further apprenticeship for two years with Messrs. Worthington Simpson, Ltd., of Newark, was granted a commission in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in 1935. After attending a year's course of instruction at the Military College of Science, Lydd, Kent, he was posted as officer in charge of a mechanical transport repair shop. Subsequently he was made workshop officer with responsibility for the supervision and maintenance of all types of mechanical transport.
Major Ortiger, who was killed on active service at Singapore in February 1942, at the age of 32, was elected a Student of the Institution in 1932, and was transferred to Graduateship in 1934, and to Associate Membership in 1939.