Wolfred Reeve Cloutman was killed in action in France whilst serving as a Lieutenant in the Tunnelling Section of the Royal Engineers. He was 24 years of age.
In 1911 he took the B.Sc. (Eng.) degree in mining at London University, and the following year obtained the Associateship of the Royal School of Mines. He was then awarded one of the £50 Scholarships of the Institution in conjunction with a post-graduate practical course, which was taken at the Great Boulder Perseverance Mine, W. Australia, and for the satisfactory completion of which he received the Institution certificate. He also gained a special prize of £25 which was offered by Mr. Edward Hooper, through the Institution, for the best set of notes kept by the post-graduate students that year, descriptive of the plant, machinery and routine of the mines or metallurgical works at which their respective courses were taken.
On leaving Western Australia early in 1914, he went to the Federated Malay States to take up a position with the Pahang Consolidated, but returned to England at the beginning of 1915 to join His Majesty’s forces.
Mr. Cloutman was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1912.
Vol. 25, Trans I.M.M. 1915-16, p. 392
