Died 26 October 1958 Service/branch British Army Rank General | Allegiance United Kingdom Years of service 1898-1939 Name Reginald May | |
 | ||
Commands held 49th (West Riding) Division
RMC Sandhurst | ||
General Sir Reginald Seaburne May KCB KBE CMG DSO (10 August 1879 – 26 October 1958) was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.
Contents
Military career
Educated at Haileybury, May was commissioned into the Royal Fusiliers in 1898. He served in the Second Boer War and then in World War I. After the War he became Director of Movements and then, from 1923, Director of Recruiting and Organisation at the War Office. He was made Brigadier in charge of Administration at Northern Command in 1927 and then Commander 49th (West Riding) Division in 1930. He was appointed Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst in 1931 and Quartermaster-General to the Forces in 1935; he retired in 1939. In retirement he was Chairman of the Toc H Christian movement for 10 years. He also served as colonel of the Royal Fusiliers.
Family
In 1906 he married Marguerite Geraldine Ramsay Drake and together they went on to have three sons. Then in 1932 he married Jane Monteith.