Arthur Reginald Dyer

Born in Alton, Hampshire to Louisa Susannah Dowling and her builder-surveyor husband John Herbert Dyer,^[2] he attended Dane Hill House, a private boarding school in Cliftonville, Kent.^[3] He joined the London Fire Brigade around 1902.^[1] By 1911 he was already a Divisional Officer within it, stationed at Euston and living on Euston Square.^[4][5]

There were 118 applications for the post of Chief Officer in 1918, with Dyer, Aylmer Firebrace and Captain William Reginald Denys Crowther RN in the final three.^[6] Dyer had been Acting Chief Officer for a time and his selection for the role itself was recommended by the General Purposes Committee to London County Council at its meeting on 3 June 1919.^[6][7] In 1933 he retired to St Leonard's-on-Sea, where he died.^[1]