Lieutenant Arthur Eden Reed DFC & bar (22 August 1898 – 29 June 1937) was a South African World War I flying ace accredited with 19 aerial victories.

Brother to Charles Bolingbroke Reed, the eldest of five children, and his three sisters Ethel, Edna, and Phyllis.

Reed attended Pretoria Boys High School, along with his brother Charles, where he matriculated in December 1914.

He swooped down to close quarters and managed to pick off each of the occupants including a German general and other high-ranking staff officers.

Among his compatriots in this squadron were South African Air Aces Thomas Sinclair Harrison, Christoffel Venter.

[4] Reed died young of bronchopneumonia after a seven-day illness, at the Railwaymens' Nursing Home in Entabeni, Durban, South Africa.