"In private life he was a countryman at heart and loved to spend his spare moments in his home where he was a tenant of the Duke of Wellington on the Stratfield Saye estate...After his retirement he lived in Canada, but paid an annual visit to this country where he loved to attend as many Irish Guards functions as he could...He liked to stay at the Savoy when he was in London and enjoyed entertaining his friends there, which he did lavishly." Lieutenant-Colonel J.F. Ross, "Brigadier R.B.S. Reford, M.C." from the Guards Magazine, Spring 1973