Arthur Reginald Dyer (11 May 1877 - 4 May 1951'Obituary', ''

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'', 15 May 1951, page 8) was a fire officer who from 1918 to 1933 held the post of Chief Officer of the

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Life

Born in

Alton, Hampshire Alton ( ) is a market town and civil parish in East Hampshire, England, near the source of the northern branch of the River Wey. It had a population of 19,425 at the 2021 census. Alton was recorded in the Domesday Survey of 1086 as ''Aoltone' ...

to Louisa Susannah Dowling and her builder-surveyor husband John Herbert Dyer, he attended Dane Hill House, a private boarding school in

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, Kent. He joined the London Fire Brigade around 1902. By 1911 he was already a Divisional Officer within it, stationed at Euston and living on Euston Square. There were 118 applications for the post of Chief Officer in 1918, with Dyer,

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and Captain William Reginald Denys Crowther RN in the final three. Dyer had been Acting Chief Officer for a time and his selection for the role itself was recommended by the General Purposes Committee to

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at its meeting on 3 June 1919.'New Chief of London Fire Brigade', ''The Times'', 2 June 1919, page 18''The Times'', 5 June 1919, page 14 In 1933 he retired to St Leonard's-on-Sea, where he died.

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Chief Officers of the London Fire Brigade People from Alton, Hampshire 1877 births 1951 deaths London Fire Brigade personnel {{UK-bio-stub