Frederick Crathorne was killed in action and his name appeared in the General Headquarters Casualty List, dated January 15th, 1916. He was 37 years of age, and obtained, a commission in the South Lancashire Regiment in the spring of 1915. He subsequently became attached to the Royal Engineers with the rank of Lieutenant.
Mr. Crathorne was educated at the Camborne School of Mines, where he obtained his first class diploma in 1906. He had previously spent a year in Swaziland, as assistant to the general manager of the Piggs Peak Development Co.; and on the termination of his course at Camborne, he proceeded to Portuguese South-West Africa, where for two years he held the post of surveyor, prospector and assayer to the Benguella Railway Company Mineral Concessions.
In 1909 he went to West Africa and remained there until 1912, holding appointments at Tarkwa, with the Abbontiakoon Mines; Ltd., and the Fanti Consolidated Mines, Ltd. During the time that intervened between his leaving the Gold Coast and the outbreak of the war, he was engaged in tin mining in Northern Nigeria; but gave up his appointment and returned home to join H.M. Forces in the early part of 1915.
Mr. Crathorne was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1907, and transferred to Associateship in 1910.
Vol. 25, Trans I.M.M. 1915-18, pp. 394-5
