William Morley Cobeldick died in France from gas-poisoning on October 7th, 1915, whilst serving as an electrical engineer with the London Section of the Royal Engineers, Territorial branch. He was 34 years of age and was educated in London at the Finsbury Technical College and the Royal School of Mines.
From 1898 to 1900 he was in British Columbia, where he was occupied, first as assayer, and afterwards as electrical engineer, to the Fraser River Gold Dredging Co. On his return to England, he was for three years engaged in laboratory work on lead-zinc ores. He gave up his work in 1905 to take the metallurgical course at the Royal School of Mines, where, in 1907, he obtained his Associateship in the first class, together with the Bessemer medal and prize for metallurgy. During the following year he acted as an assistant in experimental work in connection with a new process for the manufacture of special steels; and in August, 1908, took entire charge of a large scale experimental works for the Oonah Mines Co., Ltd., at Swansea.
In 1910 he went to South Australia, where he held a responsible position at Wallaroo till the outbreak of the war, when he returned to England.
Mr. Cobeldick was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1909.
Vol. 25, Trans I.M.M. 1915-16, pp. 392-93
