Leslie Holding Barnes
Leslie Holding Barnes (c1882-1940)
1941 Obituary [1]
LESLIE HOLDING BARNES received his technical education ,at the Crystal Palace School of Engineering, where he obtained diplomas in mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering he served his apprenticeship from 1900 to 1903 under the chief engineer of the Midland Railway Company.
The whole of his subsequent career was spent in India and China. From 1903 to 1907 he was assistant engineer on the Rajputana—Malina Railway and held a similar position with the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway from 1907 to 1913. During the war of 1914-18 he served for fifteen months with the Royal Engineers and was discharged, in 1915, as unfit for further military service owing to a wound received in action. In 1916 he entered the service of the Chinese Government Railways and was employed on the Pekin— Mukden Railway. He was subsequently engaged on important work in connection with the new harbour at Newchwang and later at Chefoo.
Mr. Barnes, whose death occurred on 13th January 1940, in his fifty-eighth year, was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1917. He was also an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.