Carl Gottfred Larsen died in September, 1921, of laryngitis, at the age of 28.
He began his technical training in September, 1911, by a two years’ course in civil engineering at the Christiania College of Technology, and he occupied his summer vacations for three years by working as an ordinary miner in various Norwegian mines. In 1913 he came to England to take up the fourth year’s course at the Royal School of Mines. For four months in 1914 he was manager of a lead prospecting mine in Staffordshire, returning to the Royal School of Mines for the 1914-15 session.
He then went for about nine months to South Africa, as sampler, surveyor and general assistant on the Simmer and Jack and Robinson mines. In May, 1916, he resumed his studies at the Royal School of Mines, when he obtained his Associateship (first-class in Mining), and won the Governor’s Book Prize, the De La Beche Medal and the Bennett H. Brough Medal.
He returned to Norway for about a year as managers assistant on a copper mine and manager of an iron mine respectively. In July, 1917, he went to Canada and was employed as mineralogist and mining engineer for the Newfoundland Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., subsequently returning to Norway.
Mr. Larsen was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1914 and transferred to Associateship in 1918.
Vol. 32, Trans IMM 1922-3, p.291
