Ernest Edward Glorney was killed on October 25th; 1916, at the age of 29 years. He was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps, and had held his commission for only five months.
He was born in Dublin, and educated in that city. At the age of eighteen he went to New York, and studied mining at the School of Mines of Columbia University. After he had obtained his degree in mining engineering in 1908, he spent a year in post graduate work on various mines in the United States; and a further year in England at the Royal School of Mines where he obtained the Associateship in 1910.
He then proceeded to South Africa, and for a year was sampler to the City and Suburban Gold Mining Co. on the Rand goldfield. He left South Africa and worked for eighteen months as assistant engineer in the dredging department of the Yukon Gold Co., Dawson City, Canada. At the outbreak of war he held the position of mining engineer and manager of the Renong Tin Dredging Co. in the Malay States, which position he resigned in order to return to England and join the Royal Flying Corps.
Mr. Glorney was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1909, and was transferred to Associateship in 1913.
Vol. 26 Trans IMM 1916-17, p.265
