Major Cyril Harrison Russell was killed on active service in Burma.
He was a student at the Royal School of Mines from 1925 to 1928, graduating with the A.R.S.M; in mining, and took up his first mining appointment in October, 1928, as assistant millman in the mill and cyanide plant at the Great Nurupi mine of the Chosen Corporation, Ltd., at Taiyudong, Korea. He was subsequently promoted to the position of assistant mill superintendent, and in 1932 became chief surveyor and engineer of the mine.
From 1935 to 1936, Major Russell was geologist to South Banket Areas, Ltd., in the Gold Coast, leaving on his appointment as underground manager to the Consolidated Tin Mines of Burma, Ltd., Tavoy. He was transferred in 1937 to the position of mine superintendent at the Hermyingyi mine, and joined the Army after the outbreak of war in 1939.
Major Russell was elected to Studentship of the Institution in 1926 and transferred to Associateship in 1933.
Vol. 55, Trans I.M.M., 1945-46, pp.568-9
