Oct 18 - Lecture On Gibraltar’s Engineering Heritage
A lecture exploring Gibraltar’s engineering heritage will take place next month. The talk will be delivered by Dr Edward P. F. Rose and is entitled: “Removing the Rock: Contributions of Quarrying and Tunnelling Companies Royal Engineers to Gibraltar’s Engineering Geological Heritage from World War II.” It is hosted by the Gibraltar Group of Professional Engineers.
The lecture takes place on 29th November at 6:30 p.m. at the King’s Chapel
About Ted Rose
Ted Rose graduated from the University of Oxford with first class honours in geology and a doctorate for research on fossiliferous limestones in Libya. He then lectured on geology in the University of London (initially at Bedford College, later at Royal Holloway) until retiring to an Honorary Research Fellowship in Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway. Commissioned into the Territorial Army through the Oxford University Officers Training Corps, he was to serve for nearly 30 years, the last 21 as a military geologist, finally (in the rank of Colonel) as Commander of the Royal Engineers Specialist Advisory Team and the ten Specialist Teams RE then administered by Central Volunteer Headquarters RE. He guided the compilation of the geological map of Gibraltar published by the Royal School of Military Survey in 1991, and has contributed to over forty other publications on the geology of Gibraltar, the last in May of this year. Awarded its Sue Tyler Friedman Medal by the Geological Society of London in 2014 for ‘excellence in research in the history of geology’, Ted currently serves as Honorary President of the International Association for Military Geosciences.
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