M.178 *	First Officer	Peter Quentin Reiss
	b. 3 Jul 1897, Manchester	19 Nov 1940 to 18 May 1942

1931

1932

Father: Henry Jacques Reiss, Esq.; Mother: Emilie Constance [Peel]

prev. WW1; Lieutenant, Lancs Fusiliers from Jun 1916 then RFC, RAF 27 Jan 1918 - 24 Feb 1919; Insurance Broker and Underwriter

In the RFC and RAF, he flew Maurice Farman, DH 4, DH 6, DH 9, BE2c/d, AW, RE8

m. 22 Oct 1918 in Pimlico, London, Vivian Dorothy [Whitehurst] (divorced 1951)

RAeC Certificate 9670 dated 14 Jan 1931, taken at Leicestershire Aero Club 

Address in 1931: 48 Queens Gate, London SW7

  (r), with an "Air Bathing Party" to Skegness, 1932. © The Royal Aero Club  [0312-0136]

[Sir Lindsay Everard, later owner of ATA's Ratcliffe Aerodrome, 3rd from left]

Amy Johnson gave him some flying lessons in 1931, and he adored her with "an unquestioning devotion"- in the post-Jim [Mollison] era he was one of her unsuccessful suitors.

He flew to Brussels in 1936 and brought her home after her first attempt to fly to Cape Town had ended in Colomb Bechar, a French air base in the Sahara.

He owned G-EBRT, a 1927 D.H. 60X Moth previously owned by Alfred Jackaman (who named it 'Peridot I') and then Walter MacPherson. It had competed in the King's Cup Race in 1927 (but did not finish) and 1928 (coming 7th out of 38), and then Walter had taken it (and his daughter) on the Heston Spring 1930 Flying Cruise to Germany. It crashed at Ashington on the 20 Jun 1938, after Peter had sold it.

 In 1936, he competed in the King's Cup at Hatfield but had to retire at Shoreham, when he nosed over and damaged the propeller of his Percival P.10 Vega Gull G-AELE.

 Postings: 

 He was still active in 1964, when he gave a dinner for Gatwick's controllers.

 d. Jan 1978 - London

* ATA file not seen