Leslie Lionel Somerset Clark died in the summer of 1927.
He was at the Royal School of Mines from 1911 until the outbreak of the Great War, when he received a commission in H.M. Forces, and on demobilization, after being wounded and gassed, he returned to South Kensington and graduated with the Associateship of the Royal School of Mines. He also received the degree of D.Sc.
In 1920 he went to Namtu, Upper Shan States, as a surveyor on the staff of the Burma Corporation, and subsequently to Bawdwin, Northern Shan States.
He returned to England in 1924, being invalided as a consequence of the injuries he had received on active service, and thenceforth retired from the mining profession.
Mr. Clark was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1919.
Vol. 37, Trans I.M.M. 1927-8, p. 574
