William Hutton-Williams was killed near Festubert when leading his company in an attack on a German trench, whilst serving as a Captain in the 3rd Batt., East Surrey Regiment, attached to the 2nd Batt., Bedfordshire Regiment, his death being reported from General Headquarters on May 19th, 1915. He was 39 years of age and had been in the Army since November, 1914.
Previous to entering the Royal School of Mines in 1901, of which he was an Associate, Mr. Hutton-Williams was articled for four years as a civil and mining engineer to Lord Merthyr of Senghenydd, had been engaged as assistant on a colliery and surveyor and assistant manager on an iron mine.
In 1897 he obtained the Mine Manager’s Certificate under the Coal Mines Regulation Act. On leaving the Royal School of Mines in 1905, after taking a special course in geology, he was appointed assistant mining engineer to the Korean Syndicate, Ltd., later becoming mining engineer to the syndicate and having full charge of the operations, the work including prospecting and reporting on gold and copper properties. He was next employed as mining engineer to the Ramgarh Prospecting Syndicate, for which he carried out a cadastral and geological survey of two coalfields and reported on their economic value, afterwards becoming superintendent of companies in the East producing an output of 900,000 tons of coal annually. In 1912 he opened an office in Cardiff as a consulting mining engineer, where he was engaged until after the outbreak of the War.
Mr. Hutton-Williams was elected an Associate, of the Institution in 1903 and transferred to Membership in 1913.
Vol. 24, Trans IMM 1914-15, pp.507-8
