Gerard Owen Lydekker died in Alexandria of an obscure tropical disease on June 14th, 1917.
He was 29 years of age, and had been serving with H.M. Forces since the autumn of 1914. In May, 1915, he obtained a commission in the Bedfordshire Regiment and was sent to Gallipoli in the following September.
On the termination of operations in that district, he proceeded to Egypt with his regiment and remained there until the malady seized him which terminated fatally. He spent a year in practical mining work in British Columbia before entering the Royal School of Mines as a student, in October, 1910. In 1912, he obtained a post on the Carn Brea Tin Mines in Cornwall, which he held until a few weeks after the outbreak of the war.
Mr. Lydekker was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1912.
Vol. 27, Trans IMM 1917-18, p.401
