George Buchanan McClure died in London on February 19th, 1924, at the age of 36.
In 1905 he was apprenticed to an engineering firm in Glasgow, and subsequently was employed by the Glasgow Coal Co, He also had experience of tin-mining in Cornwall and of iron ore mines in Cumberland. Meanwhile he pursued his studies at the Royal School of Mines, where he graduated A.R.S.M. in mining in 1910. He then entered into it one-year engagement as assayer and surveyor to the Bacis Gold & Silver Mining Co., Bacis, Mexico, after which he was engaged on the mill end cyanide plant of the Peregrina Mining & Milling Co., Guanajato, Mexico. In the autumn of 1912 he went to Korea as engineer to the Korean Exploration Syndicate, Seoul.
At the outbreak of war he obtained a commission in the Royal Highlanders (Black Watch), and he was very severely wounded at the battle of Loos in September, 1915. On the conclusion of hostilities he was engaged in mining in Japan and elsewhere, but his severe wounds seriously incapacitated him in the exercise of his profession.
Captain McClure was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1908, and was Transferred to Associateship in 1914.
Vol. 34, Trans IMM 1924-25, pp.570-71
