Charles Harold Turrell died in London, in December, 1915, at the age of 40 years.
His earlier professional work was done in Rhodesia, where he spent eight years, from 1899 to 1907, in the service of the Rhodesia Exploration and Development Co. of Bulawayo, filling successively positions as assayer, assistant manager, secretary and mine manager. For the next year and a half he practised as a consulting engineer in partnership with Mr. P.F. Patterson, at Penhalonga; and remained a further two years in Rhodesia as manager to gold mining companies.
In 1911 he obtained an appointment as assistant engineer to Messrs. Pearse, Kingston & Browne, which he held for one year; and subsequently he spent six months in Asia Minor as manager of the Bolomon Copper Mines. In 1914 he went to Northern Nigeria as engineer to the Amalgamated Tin Properties of Nigeria, but at the expiration of eleven months his health broke down and he was invalided home.
Mr. Turrell was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1914.
Vol. 25, Trans IMM 1915-16, p.408
