James Holden Graham died in Australia early in 1922, at the age of 37.
An Australian by birth, he joined the stuff of the Tasmania Mine, Beaconsfield, Tasmania, in 1901, and for the first two years was employed on the concentrating plant, and for four subsequent years acted as assistant surveyor. During this period he took evening lectures at the Beaconsfield School of Mines, and in 1907, on the completion of his engagement in Tasmania, he went to Adelaide to study at the South Australian School of Mines and University.
His vacations were spent in practical work in Tasmania, partly on the mine where he started his experience. In 1909 he obtained the position of manager of the plant at the Great Southern Mine, Rutherglen, Victoria.
On the outbreak of war he joined the Australian Imperial Forces, and went to Cairo with the Egyptian Section of the Anzac Provost Corps. He afterwards returned to Australia to resume his work.
Mr. Graham was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1911.
Vol. 33 Trans IMM 1923-24, pp.533-4
