Reginald Conduit Riley died on 16th August, 1948, at Lowestoft, Suffolk, at the age of 62.
He was employed for six months at the Bishop Bridge Iron Works, Norwich, before entering the Camborne School of Mines in 1905, where he obtained a first class Diploma in 1908. He worked for a few months at the Dolcoath mine and in 1909 was appointed assistant mining engineer to the Central Provinces Prospecting Syndicate, Ltd. (now Central Provinces Manganese Ore Co., Ltd.), and was later in charge of some of the Syndicate’s manganese mines in the Nagpur District of India.
He was a trooper in the Nagpur Mounted Infantry Volunteers before the 1914-1918 war, and early in 1915 received his commission in the Indian Army Reserve Forces. He was first attached to the South Lancashire Regiment and then to the 81st Pioneers on the North West Frontier, and in August, 1916, served in Mesopotamia with the Royal Engineers, and was mentioned in despatches.
He was released from the Army in 1919 with the rank of major, and rejoined the Central Provinces Manganese Ore Co., Ltd., in the capacity of mines manager of the Ramtek group of mines. From 1923 until his retirement in 1945 he was agent and general manager to the company in India.
Mr. Riley was elected a Student of the Institution in 1908 and was transferred to Associateship in 1913 and to Membership in 1929.
Vol. 59, Trans I.M.M., 1949-50, p.?
