Lieutenant General Sir Hubert Alan John Reay, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, CStJ was a senior British Army officer
Background
Reay was born on 19 March 1925 in Hednesford, Staffordshire. His father, a chaplain, had been awarded the Military Cross during World War I. He was educated at Lancing College, a then all-boys public school in the village of Lancing, West Sussex.
Education
He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1948 Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery).
Career
He served as Director General Army Medical Services between 1981 and 1984. On 23 October 1949, as part of national service, Reay was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps with the rank of lieutenant. He was promoted to captain on 23 October 1950.
On 23 November 1949, he transferred from the National Service List to the regular army on a short service commission.
His first posting was as a Regimental Medical Officer attached to 1st Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment in the Federation of Malaya during the Malayan Emergency. By April 1952, he was a temporary major.
He transferred to a regular commission on 26 November 1952 in the rank of captain. He was promoted to substantive major on 23 October 1957.
He was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 23 October 1962.
He was promoted to colonel on 23 October 1972. He was promoted to brigadier on 14 July 1976. On 4 July 1977, he was appointed Commandant and Postgraduate Dean of the Royal Army Medical College and was granted the local rank of major general.
He was promoted to substantive major general on 1 August 1977.
In 1979, he was appointed Director of Medical Services British Army of the Rhine. He was promoted to lieutenant general on 7 April 1981 with seniority from 7 November 1980. He served as Director General Army Medical Services from 1981 to 1984.
He retired from the British Army on 25 February 1985. Reay served as chairman of Lambeth health care National Health Service trust between 1992 and 1997.
He died on 4 February 2012, aged 86.
His funeral was held at Street Mary"s Church, Barnes, London on 24 February. He was buried at East Sheen Cemetery.