. Transactions. The last year he wasin its employ, he acted asgeneral mine foreman. Hewas for a short time with theChile Exploration Co. andthen went with the AndesExploration Co. (Anaconda)and remained with the latter,doing mine exploration anddevelopment work, until hesailed for home in June, 1918,to give a more personal andactive service to his countryin her need. He declined a tender ofinduction into an officerstraining camp, at the urgentrequest of Professor McClel-land supplemented by , because they demon-strated to his satisfactionthat he could give more valu-able service to hi
. Transactions. The last year he wasin its employ, he acted asgeneral mine foreman. Hewas for a short time with theChile Exploration Co. andthen went with the AndesExploration Co. (Anaconda)and remained with the latter,doing mine exploration anddevelopment work, until hesailed for home in June, 1918,to give a more personal andactive service to his countryin her need. He declined a tender ofinduction into an officerstraining camp, at the urgentrequest of Professor McClel-land supplemented by , because they demon-strated to his satisfactionthat he could give more valu-able service to his country in helping out with the aircraft within the draft age, in order to carry out this plan, it was necessaryfor him to be called by his Local Board and sent to camp. This call cameAug. 26. Two weeks before that time he had gone to Dayton, Ohio,to begin the study of aircraft production, and was sent by the DaytonBoard to Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, where he died of pneumoniaon Oct. Corporal Sheppard B. Gordy. Lieutenant Thomas Clarence Gorman Thomas C. Gorman, a lieutenant in the Second Tunnelling Companyof the Canadian Engineers, was killed in France on Mar. 18, 1918. Hewas resting in his sleeping hut and was in the act of writing a letterwhen a bursting shell killed him. 730 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES Lieutenant Gorman was born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1888, and afterpreliminary education at Ottawa University and the Ottawa CollegiateInstitute, he graduated from McGill University in 1913, as a mining engineer. After graduation,Mr. Gorman spent severalmonths in a tour of Europe. The year 1909 was occu-pied at one of the Canadiangraphite mines, and the sum-mer of 1911 he spent with theGranby Mining, Smelting &Power Co., Ltd. At the timeof his admission to the Insti-tute, in 1914, he was samplerwith the Dome mines at SouthPorcupine, Ontario. His nextengagement was at theCreighton mine, Ontario, butin 1916 he joined the Cana-dian Expeditionary Force andwent
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