Reay Cyril James Lieutenant 288763
Personnel Entry
Name Reay Cyril James
Army number 288763 Initial Regimental Number not yet known.
Rank Sergeant.
Decorations Territorial Efficiency Medal awarded 8/2/1949.
Date of birth Not yet known
Age Not known
Unit Enlisted in the Middlesex Regiment. Posted to the 2nd Battalion Princess Louise’s Kensington Regiment. Selected for Officer Cadet Training. Posted to OCTU. Passed and Commissioned. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Middlesex Regiment 7/8/1943. Posted to the 2nd Battalion Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment 30/8/1943.
Company/Battery Headquarters Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit Probably Administrative Platoon.
Task or role Orderly Room Sergeant. Orderly Room Quartermaster Sergeant.
Joined Brigade From the date when the Battalion was allocated in support of 70th Infantry Brigade.
Promotions Commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Middlesex Regiment. War Substantive Lieutenant. Honorary Captain.
Wounded Not as far as is known.
Prisoner of War Not as far as is known.
Died/Killed in action Date of death not yet known.
Home address No family information as yet.
Source table
This soldier was featured in the photograph of the Battalion Sergeants' Mess taken in 1941 - probably as Orderly Room Quartermaster Sergeant.
