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Birth name
  
Jeremy Calcott Reilly

Service/branch
  
Rank
  
Lieutenant general


Name
  
Jeremy Reilly

Years of service
  
1954-1989

Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Jeremy Reilly Lt Gen Sir Jeremy Reilly dies a sad beginning to 2017 THE FUSILIERS

Born
  
7 April 1934 (
1934-04-07
)

Commands held
  
2nd Bn Royal Regiment of Fusiliers6th Field force and UK Mobile Force4th Armoured Division

Awards
  
Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order

Lieutenant-General Sir Jeremy Calcott Reilly KCB DSO (7 April 1934 – 1 January 2017) was a British Army officer who commanded 4th Armoured Division.

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Military career

Educated at Uppingham School and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Reilly was commissioned into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in 1954. He was given command of the 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in 1971. He was appointed an instructor at the Staff College, Camberley in 1974, Commander of 6th Field Force and the UK Mobile Force in 1979 and General Officer Commanding 4th Armoured Division in 1981. He went on to lead the Directorate of Business Delivery at the Ministry of Defence in 1983, to become Assistant Chief of Defence Staff at the Ministry of Defence in 1985 and to be Commander for Training and Arms Directors in 1986 before he retired in 1989.

Personal life

In 1960 he married Julia Elizabeth Forrester; they had three daughters. He died on 1 January 2017 at the age of 82.

References

Jeremy Reilly Wikipedia


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