Lt.-Col. · Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General 6 Division
Reginald Seaburne May (Sir)
† 26/10/1958 · aged 79
Personal data
Name
May (Sir)
Initials
R.S.
Christian name
Reginald Seaburne
Date and place of birth
?; 10.08.1879
Family
Married to Marguerite Geraldine Ramsay Drake (1906)
Extra information
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Educated at Haileybury and at the Royal Military College
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Served in the Second Boer War.
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G.O.C 49 (West Riding) Division (1930), Commandant Royal Military College Sandhurst (1931); promoted Lieutenant-General (1934); Quartermaster-General to the Forces (1935); Colonel of the Royal Fusiliers (1941-'49)
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KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO
Military data
Rank
Lt.-Col.
Regiment / Unit
Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General 6 Division
Date of death
Age
79
Other information
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Insisted that the soldiers' club be called Talbot House after Rev. Neville Talbot (and not 'Church House' as Tubby and Neville had tried to call it).
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At the Talbot House Committee Meeting of 26.01.1918 it was proposed that May "be elected a perpetual Vice President".
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First Chairman of Toc H, 15.11.1919. Later became a Trustee and Vice-President.
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Present at the reopening of Talbot House on 05.04.1931
