Hugh Mortimer Eddowes died in October, 1929, at the age of 50.
He entered the Royal School of Mines in 1897, graduating with the Associateship in 1900. On completion of his course he went to South Africa, and was for some months at trooper in the Commander-in-Chief’s bodyguard during the closing period of the Boer War. For about seven years he served in various capacities on mines on the Witwatersrand, and in 1908 was appointed cyanide manager of the Cam mine, Rhodesia.
He remained in that county until 1916, when he obtained at Commission in the Royal Engineers (Tunnelling Companies), B.E.F., France. He was awarded the D.S.O. on December 23rd, 1918. After demobilization, he returned to South Africa, first to Kenya Colony and afterwards to Rhodesia.
Mr. Eddowes was elected a Member of the Institution in 1919.
Vol. 39, Trans IMM 1929-30, p.693
