Bryan Harold Pile died on 13th November, 1959, at the age of 35.
He was educated in Newton Abbot and Westcliff, and studied at the South East Essex Technical College and School of Art in 1943 for the engineering cadetship diploma which he gained in December, 1944, before entering the Army.
He received his metallurgical training at the Royal School of Mines from 1948 to 1953, and obtained the Associateship of the School and the B.Sc.(Eng.) degree.
Mr. Pile was engaged for a year as experimental officer and later senior experimental officer in the mineral dressing department of the General Electric Co., Ltd., Research Laboratories at Wembley, and during this period visited Nsuta, Ghana.
From 1955 he had been on the staff of the U.K. Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, and was still working as an experimental officer in the Mineral Dressing Section of the Chemical Engineering Division at the time of his death.
He was elected a Student of the Institution in 1953 and was transferred to Associate Membership in 1958.
Vol. 70, Trans I.M.M., 1960-61, p.32
