Albert Gordon McCrae, while on his way to spend a holiday in America, lost his life as a passenger on board the S.S. Titanic when it foundered on April 15th, 1912.
He was educated at Sydney University, where he obtained his degree as Bachelor of Engineering in 1902. Following on his college course, he spent a year working underground in a mine in North Queensland, in order to gain practical experience. The years 1904 and 1905 were mostly spent in the British Isles, at first on reporting work in Ireland, and afterwards in the London office of the Great Boulder Proprietary Co.
From 1905 to 1907 Mr. McCrae was engaged in gold mining in West Africa, where he ultimately was given the charge of a mine belonging to the Prestea Block A, Ltd. Subsequently, from 1907 until shortly before the voyage which ended so disastrously, he was employed in copper mining with the Spassky Copper Co., Ltd., in Western Siberia, at first in the capacity of smelter assistant, and later, from January, 1911, as smelter superintendent. During that period he made several reports on mines in the district.
Mr. McCrae was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1904, and was transferred to Associateship in 1909.
Vol. 21, Trans IMM 1911-12, p.728
