Harry Hogg Yuill died in Vancouver, British Columbia, on September 3rd, 1935, at the age of 49.
During the years 1903 to 1910 he had a varied practical experience in mining, milling and
assaying in Canada and the United States, in addition to going through a four years’ course at McGill University, Montreal, where he obtained the British Association Medal and Dawson Fellowship in Mining for 190940, and graduated with the degree of M.Sc.
In 1910 he went to Western Australia as representative of Bainbridge, Seymour & Co. A year later he was engaged on the Crown Mines in the Transvaal, followed by the examination of mines and prospects in Southern Rhodesia for the British South Africa Mines Development Co.
In 1914 he went to China as representative of Messrs. Bainbridge, Seymour & Co., but in January, 1915, he was in England and enlisted in the Army. In April of that year he went to France as 2nd Lieutenant in a Tunnellmg Company, obtained his captaincy in the same year, and his majority in March, 1917. He received the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, B.E., and was appointed Controller of Hines to the First Army, B.E.F., and liaison and advisory officer for the production of French coal mines and the restarting of the Belgian mines. He was awarded the D.S.O. and M.C., and was mentioned in despatches five times.
After the War he started in practice as a consultant in the firm of Bainbridge, Seymour & Co., but in 1928 he returned to Canada and set up in practice in British Columbia, acting as representative of the Victoria Syndicate and other British and American interests.
Colonel Yuill was elected a Member of the Institution in 1919, and was a Member of the Council from 1926 to 1928.
Vol. 45, Trans IMM 1935-36, pp.526-7
