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

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    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
     
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    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.
     
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    The Gazette Montreal, 24 April 1919:
    The Gazette Montreal, 24 April 1919, pt1.png The Gazette Montreal, 24 April 1919, pt2.png
     
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    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.

    Catalogue | The Catalogue | Reford, Captain Robert Bruce | The de Laszlo Archive Trust
     
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