Philip Osbert Gordon Usborne
Philip Osbert Gordon Usborne (1879-1915)
1915 Obituary [1]
PHILIP OSBERT GORDON USBORNE, Capt. R.E., eldest son of Capt. George Usborne, of Dunlea, Queenstown, was born on the 16th February, 1879, and died at Calcutta on the 15th March, 1915.
Educated at Repton, he entered Woolwich Academy, and received his commission in 1898. He served through the South African War, and was afterwards employed on cantonments at Bloemfontein. Subsequently he was employed by the Colonial Office as Colonial Engineer in Uganda, and retiring from military life, he carried out surveys of the lower branches of the Congo for the Belgian Government.
In 1914 he accepted an appointment in Calcutta. Whilst at Chatham he was Assistant Instructor at the School of Military Engineering, helped in revising text-books, and later published a treatise on the Design of Steel Bridges.
He was elected an Associate of the Institution on the 3rd December, 1907.