George de Wolf was killed in action and his name appeared in the General Headquarters Casualty List dated February 16th, 1916. He was 36 years of age and was serving as 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment.
He studied assaying at the London Metallurgical Works, Chelsea, and in 1898 went out to Australia, where he remained for eight years. His first post was that of an assayer in New South Wales, but he relinquished it after two years and went to Western Australia where he took up cyanide work at the Great Boulder Perseverance Gold Mine. Subsequently he held appointments in the cyanide works of the South Kalgurli Gold Mines, and the Associated Gold Mines of Western Australia; and he also spent several months in prospecting on his own account. From 1907, until he returned to England to join the army in the spring of 1915, he was chief cyanide assistant to the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation at Obuasi, Gold Coast, West Africa.
Mr. de Wolf was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1911.
Vol. 25, Trans IMM 1915-16, p.410
