Herbert William Gartrell (14 August 1882 – 8 June 1945) was a South Australian academic and professor of mining and metallurgy at the University of Adelaide.
[2] In 1905 he was awarded an Angas engineering scholarship, which he used to travel to the US and Canada, where he gained valuable work experience and completed studies for an MA at the Columbia University in New York City.
[3] He was appointed foundation lecturer in Mining and Metallurgy at Adelaide University in 1910 and in November 1916 enrolled with the 1st AIF, and left for France in April 1917, serving with the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company in France, then with the 257th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers,[4] returning to Adelaide in July 1919[5] and resumed duty at the School of Mines for the third term.
They had one possibly adopted[4] son named Roger Gartrell, who was born before 1916 and engaged to Raye Lorraine Buderick in April 1938.
Gartrell was a worshipper at the Luhrs Road Congregational Church, South Payneham, and was a sponsor of the London Missionary Society.