Frederick Percy Tremble died on December 25th, 1945, at the age of 51.
He studied inorganic chemistry and metallurgy in the evenings at the South Western Polytechnic Institute, Chelsea, from 1911 to 1915 and from 1920 to 1922 while working for Messrs. Riley, Harbord and Law, of London, with whom he held the position of assistant chemist from November, 1910, to February, 1915.
He then joined the Royal Navy, but resigned his employment in October, 1915, as assistant chemist and inspector. In January, 1922, he became manager of the Swansea branch of the firm, and remained there for nearly four years, leaving in December, 1925, on his appointment as senior assistant in the ore department of British Metal Corporation, Ltd., for whom he worked in England, Germany, France, Belgium and Italy.
On the outbreak of war in 1939 he went to Rugby with the Non-Ferrous Metals Control, remaining there until early in 1943, when he returned to London to take up a position with Continental Metals & Minerals, Ltd., a subsidiary of British Metal Corporation.
Mr. Tremble joined the British Economic Mission in North Africa on the direction of the Ministry of Supply, and worked in Algiers with the Minerals Division until his return to London in June, 1945, to resume his employment with British Metal Corporation.
He was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1928.
Vol. 55, Trans IMM 1945-46, p.579
