Harold Greatwood was killed in action in France at the end of the year 1917, or early in 1918, whilst serving as Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. He was 30 years of age.
He was educated at Cheltenham College and Camborne School of Mines, where he obtained a first class diploma. From 1909 to 1912 he was employed as assistant surveyor and assayer at the Ouro Preto Gold Mines of Brazil, Ltd.; and on his return to England he took a course on topographical surveying with the Royal Geographical Society.
After a year spent in Ceylon on business unconnected with mining, he went back to Brazil and resumed his work with the Ouro Preto Gold Mines as surveyor and assayer, returning home at the end of 1916 to take up a commission in. the R.F.A.
Mr. Greatwood was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1907, and was transferred to Associateship in 1916.
Vol. 27 Trans IMM 1917-18, pp.397-8
