PENSELER – - Wolfram (Wulfram-sic?) Hermann Albert Penseler, “… attended Thames School of Mines/Waihi School of Mines 1918/1919 with Distinction and then Otago School of Mines in 1920 (when he already had a BE in Mining and had qualified for the First-Class Coal Mine Manager’s Certificate and the gold mining Battery Manager’s Certificate) and completed his classes in 1924. With these qualifications and his AOSM in both mining and metallurgy he was probably the most qualified mining engineer ever to come out of the Otago School of Mines…” (‘Captain Jack Surveyor and Engineer’ by John Mackie, p.135). Wolf Penseler was the son of the honorary German Consul to New Zealand and Samoa in the 1920s/30s. A civil servant in New Zealand then a Mining Engineer, Otago. Married Miss Lucy McIntyre, second daughter of Mrs. McIntyre and the late Rev. I McIntyre of St. Clair, Dunedin, on 16.4.31. With insufficient opportunity in New Zealand at the time he moved to Malaya and gained the position of General Manager Australian Gold Mining Company, Raub. After the fall of Singapore, he became an internee in Changi Prison Internment camp and, tragically, was rounded up with other men and women from Changi in October 1943 during the infamous “Double Tenth” (10.10.43) campaign by the Japanese Kempetai to solve who had orchestrated the blowing up of ships in Singapore Harbour. He was incarcerated in the Gestapo HQ at the YMCA in Singapore and horribly tortured, starved and maltreated and as a result died from Beri – Beri, Oedema, and starvation in the Camp hospital on 2.11.44 aged 42 years of age; His wife died in the sinking of the evacuation ship ‘SS Tandjong Pinang’ in February 1942. ( Michael Pether )