Harold Llewellyn Twite was killed in France, whilst engaged underground on December 1st, 1915.
He was 36 years of age, and had held a commission in the Royal Field Artillery since November, 1914. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, and for a few weeks previous to his decease he had been attached to the Tunnelling Section of the Royal Engineers. He was educated at the Royal School of Mines and obtained his Associateship in mining in 1900. In order to gain experience in the practical side of his profession, he spent more than a year working as a miner in Cornwall, and afterwards in Colorado, at Stratton’s Independence Gold Mine. In 1901 and the following year, he held posts as surveyor to gold mining companies in Arizona, and afterwards spent a few months with the Hidalgo Mining Co., Parral, Mexico.
From 1903 to 1905 he was manager of the Loveden Lead Mine, Cardiganshire, and from 1905 to 1906 he acted in the same capacity to the San Finx Tin Mines, Ltd., province of Pontevedra, Spain. In 1906, Mr. Twite joined the firm of Messrs. Norton Griffiths & Co., as London manager, and during the five years he held this post he made reports on mining properties and surveys of mineral areas in various parts of Great Britain, Spain, and South America. In 1911 he entered into a partnership and started in practice in London as a consulting mining engineer.
Mr. Twite was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1903; was transferred to Associateship in 1906, and to Membership in 1910.
Vol. 25, Trans IMM 1915-16, pp.408-9
