9581 Robert Bruce Stephen REFORD, MC, MiD, 1 Irish Guards

Personal Number:
Rank: Brigadier
Name: R B S REFORD, MC
Unit: 1 Irish Guards
GSM & Clasp: GSM, Palestine Clasp 1936 - 1939
TNA Reference: WO 100/503

 

Personal Number: 9581
Rank: Brigadier
Name: Robert Bruce Stephen REFORD, MC, MiD
Unit: Irish Guards

London Gazette : 29 March 1916
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29525/supplement/3397/data.pdf
Irish Guards.
Temporary Second Lieutenant Robert Bruce Stephen Reford, from The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment).

London Gazette : 19 August 1938
Lt.-Col. R. B. S. Reford, M.C., I.G'ds., to be Bt. Col. under the prov. of Art. 182A, Royal Warrant for Pay and Promotion, 1931. 10th Aug. 1938.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34543/page/5356/data.pdf

London Gazette : 9 September 1938
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34549/page/5734/data.pdf
REGULAR ARMY.
The undermentioned Lt.-Cols. to be Cols.:—
Bt. Col. R. B. S. (Reford, M.C., late I. G'ds., 1st Sept. 1938 with seniority 10th Aug. 1938.

London Gazette : 20 December 1940
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35020/supplement/7175/data.pdf
The names of the undermentioned have been brought to notice in recognition of distinguished services in connection with operations in the field, March-June, 1940.
COMMANDS AND STAFF.
Col. (temp. Brig.) R. B. S. REFORD, M.C.

London Gazette : 14 March 1944
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36421/supplement/1211/data.pdf
REGULAR ARMY
Col. R. B. S. Reford, M.C. (9581) retires on ret. pay, and is granted the hon. rank of Brig. 12th Mar. 1944.

 

London Gazette : 20 December 1940

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35020/supplement/7174/data.pdf


https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35020/supplement/7175/data.pdf

 

The Gazette Montreal, 24 April 1919:

 

I'm reading "Lives of Great Gardeners" by Stephen Anderton.
There is a chapter on the Canadian Alexander Reford.
Page 75 it says
"The house and garden at Métis then passed to Reford's grandfather , a career soldier in the Irish Guards , who soon realized the place was more than his energies could maintain. In 1961 the Canadian government bravely stepped in and bought it.."

Looking into his Grandfather I found this portrait when he was still in the Sherwood Foresters.

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