Howard Reid (Canadian admiral)

Vice Admiral Howard Emerson Reid CB (5 June 1897 - 3 May 1962) was a Royal Canadian Navy officer who served as Chief of the Naval Staff from 1946 to 1947.

Career
Reid joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1912 and saw action in various ships during World War I. He became Commanding Officer of the destroyer HMCS Skeena in 1936, of the destroyer HMCS Fraser in 1937 and of the shore establishment HMCS Naden in 1938. He went on to be Commanding Officer of HMC Dockyard Halifax in 1938 and Commanding Officer Atlantic Coast in 1939.

He served in World War II as Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff from 1940, as Commodore Commanding the Newfoundland Escort Force from 1942 and as Naval Member of the Canadian Joint Staff to Washington, D.C. in 1943. Following the sudden death of his predecessor, he became Chief of the Naval Staff in 1946 before retiring in 1947.