Charles Julian attended Westminster School between 1910-15 and then served in the First World War with the Royal Garrison Artillery and was awarded the Military Cross in 1919. After the War he played as a winger or inside-forward for the Casuals, Corinthians, Westminster Wanderers, Old Westminsters and, whilst he never gained an England amateur cap, he played a representative match for the Amateur Football Association. His football career lasted only until the early 1920s but he managed to get selected for the Great Britain team for the 1920 Olympics although he never played in the match against Norway. In 1923 he joined the Rio Tinto mining company and served with the company overseas, mostly at Huelva in Spain where, in 1951 he was promoted from chief mining engineer to general manager. Regarded as one of the world’s great mining engineers he was still with Rio Tinto after 32 years when he died suddenly in 1955.
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