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Name: McGROARTY, Rowland Dryden
Birth Date: 8.4.1889 South Norwood, London
Death Date: 7.9.1914 Taveta, on active service
Profession: Railway construction
Book Reference: Gazette, Medals
War Service: EA Pioneer Co.
School: Selhurst Park Coll, Beckenham Technical School
General Information:
Gazette - 31/3/15 - Probate & Admin. - Roland Dryden McGroarty, died Taveta about 7/9/14
Medals - EA Pioneer Company - R. McGroarty, No. 3052, Pioneer
Inst of Mech Engineers (web) - He started on his apprenticeship in November 1904 with Messrs. W. F. Stanley and Co., Ltd., and from 1908-1909 he went through a course of drawing office practice at the Goldsmiths' College, New Cross.
He next joined the staff of a water-softening firm, and in February 1914 was sent by Messrs. Lamberts, Ltd., of Southwark Street, to British East Africa, on railway construction. When war broke out he volunteered at Nairobi, and became a motor-cyclist scout. In the fighting near Tsavo on 7th September 1914 he was wounded and captured by the Germans, and subsequently died, at the age of twenty-five. He contributed two Papers, which were read at the Graduates' Meetings one in March 1912, on "The Purification and Softening of Water," for which he was awarded a prize by the Council, and the other, in November 1913, on "Modern Methods of Steam Raising." He was elected a Graduate of this Institution in 1909.