Lieutenant General Joseph Henry Laye CB CVO (4 February 1849 – 26 June 1938) was a British Army officer who served as Deputy Adjutant-General to the Forces.

[1] He commanded the 1st Battalion Scottish Rifles from 1889 to 1893.

[1] He was a temporary assistant adjutant-general at army headquarters until February 1900, when he became Deputy Adjutant-General to the Forces, with the temporary rank of major general.

[2][3][4] Laye was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1902 Coronation Honours published on 26 June 1902,[5][6] and received the decoration from King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 24 October.

[7] Laye died of a heart attack on 26 June 1938, aged 89.