William Robert Clarke died at Bukuru, Northern Nigeria, on November 11th, 1938, at the age of 48.
He went through the full course of mechanical engineering at the Technical College, Sydney, New South Wales, and during that period and for two years subsequently was doing practical work with an engineering firm in that city.
From 1910 to 1915 he held various appointments, mostly underground, in mines in New South Wales, and then was employed for a brief period with Norton Griffiths & Co., railway contractors. After serving in the Great War, from which he emerged with the rank of major, he came to England in 1919 to receive a six months’ course in metallurgy at the South Western Polytechnic, London, and on its conclusion went to Northefn Nigeria, where he was employed on various mines, including the Associated Tin Mines of Nigeria, Ltd., Keffi Consolidated Tin Mines, Ltd., and the mines worked by A.A. Davidson and J.M. Iles on the Bauchi Plateau.
Mr. Clarke was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1924 and was transferred to Associateship in 1929.
Vol. 49, Trans I.M.M. 1939-40, p. 733
