Colin Johnstone Maclaverty was killed in action in France on September 16th, 1916. He was 37 years of age and at the time of his death held the rank of Captain in the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
When war broke out he was in Nigeria, and at once joined the Northern Nigerian Regiment and served with the Cameroon Expeditionary Force. In May, 1915, he was wounded, and invalided home a month later. He remained at his home in Monmouthshire until the autumn of 1915, when he was pronounced fit for active service, and joined the Shropshire Light Infantry.
He received his technical training at Camborne School of Mines and in 1900 went to Alaska and spent a year and a half prospecting in the north-western part of that territory. From 1904 to 1905 he held a post as assistant surveyor to the Geldenhuis Deep Gold Mining Co., in the Transvaal, and his last mining appointment, which he held from 1908 till he joined the Nigerian forces in 1914, was that of assistant engineer to the Niger Co., Ltd., on the Bauchi tin fields, Northern Nigeria.
Mr. Maclaverty was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1914.
Vol. 26, Trans IMM 1916-17, p.269
