Kenneth 'Ken' Kelsall 1921-2015

摘要

Ken Kelsall was a gifted engineer involved in building 26 dams across Western Australia and a pioneer of one of Australia's biggest water projects, the Ord River Dam and Irrigation Scheme. Fellow engineers and colleagues around the nation remember him as a generous, fabulous bloke who mentored and helped guide the careers of scores of engineers. Kelsall was born in Perth in 1921. He started as a cadet engineer with the Public Works Department in Perth in 1939, the year after he graduated from Aquinas College where he had been dux and school captain. He later graduated from the University of WA with a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours.