Albert Victor Reis died on January 10th, 1943, at the age of 56.
He was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, and received his technical training at the Heriot Watt Engineering College and Edinburgh University, obtaining the B.Sc. in Civil Engineering in 1908 and later taking a mining course at Glasgow University. From 1909 to 1912 he obtained practical coal-mining experience at the Allanton Collieries at Hamilton, Lanarkshire, and in 1912 joined the staff of the Tharsis Sulphur and Copper Co. Ltd. in Huelva, Spain.
In 1919 he left to take charge of the mining operations of the Huelva Copper and Sulphur Co. Ltd., where he remained until 1921, when he returned to Scotland and re-entered Edinburgh University to study for a degree in mining and metallurgy. He graduated B.Sc. with Distinction in 1922, and in the same year joined the Fife Coal Co. Ltd. as assistant manager of the Aitken Collieries. In 1923 he was promoted manager and in 1924 he became agent in full charge of the Dysart group of collieries of the Fife Coal Co. In the following year he was promoted to the post of assistant to the general manager of the Fife company and in 1927 left that concern to become director and general mines manager of Manchester Collieries Ltd.
After the outbreak of war Mr. Reis was appointed to an important post in the Timber Control of the Ministry of Supply, which he held until the end of 1941 when he rejoined the mining staff of the Fife Coal Co. Mr. Reis was the author of a paper on ‘Underground Methods of Mining Wide Pyritic Orebodies’ which was published in Vol. XXXI of the Transactions.
He was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1919 and was transferred to Membership in 1926.
Vol. 23, Trans I.M.M., 1913-14, p.527
