Lionel Calvert was killed in action in France on January 30th, 1917, at the age of 30 years.
Immediately the war broke out he resigned his appointment in Rhodesia, and, returning to England, obtained a commission in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, by the end of November, 1914. Six months later he was transferred to the Royal Engineers, and was one of the first six tunnelling officers to be sent overseas. In this capacity he served with distinction until he was wounded and invalided home to England. He returned to the Front in July, 1916, and after some months of service was killed by a shell when bringing his men out of the trenches.
Mr. Calvert was educated at Marlborough and at the Leys School, Cambridge, and afterwards spent a year at Messrs. Fraser & Chalmers’ Works at Erith. He commenced his course at the Royal School of Mines in 1907, and in 1911 obtained the Associateship.
On the completion of his training he Went to the Transvaal, and after a few months’ work as sampler and surveyor to the Rose Deep Gold Mining Co., at Germiston, obtained an appointment as assistant surveyor to the Robinson Gold Mining Co., on the Witwatersrand, which he held from April, 1912, to November, 1918. During the first half of 1914, he was surveyor and assayer to the Eileen Alannah Gold Mining Co., Eiffel Flat, Southern Rhodesia, which position he gave up to join H.M. Forces.
Mr. Calvert was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1909 and was transferred to Associateship in 1914.
Vol. 26, Trans I.M.M. 1916-17, p. 262
