Lawrence Lyon Edwards was killed while on active service in Italy on May 21st, 1944.
He began his mining experience at the Gaika gold mine Southern Rhodesia in 1930, and came to London in 1932, where he was a student at the Royal School of Mines, graduating in 1938 with the took a position as A.R.S.M. and degree of B.Sc. (Eng.). He thereupon took up a position as surveyor at the Geduld mine, Transvaal.
Details of Mr. Edward’s military service are unfortunately not known. He was elected to Studentship of the Institution in 1936.
Vol. 55, Trans IMM 1945-46, p.566
