Frank George Whinyeates Dunsford was murdered by Chinese in June, 1938.
He was born in New Zealand and was articled to a firm of lawyers at Timaru, from 1895 to 1898. He did not, however, adopt the legal profession, but in 1898 became engaged in gold dredging on the Molyneux river, and later at Otago and the west coast of South Island.
From 1902 to 1907 he was employed in gold mines in Western Australia, and in 1908 he went to New South Wales, where he spent two years in various mines. In 1911 he was engaged in tin dredging in Siam, and in the following year he was gold dredging in F.M.S. He was manager of a tin mine in the Mersing district, Johore, and he examined alluvial tin areas in Southern Perak and Selangor for a Singapore Syndicate.
During the decade following 1914 he was mine manager and later general manager of the Titi Tin Co., Ltd., at Jelebu, F.M.S., and in 1925 he again-turned to examining alluvial tin deposits by boring. He was then appointed mining adviser to Loke Yew Trustees of Kuala Lumpur.
Mr. Dunsford was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1928.
Vol. 48, Trans IMM 1938-39, pp.830-1
