Son of Major Frederick Benjamin and Maria Amelia Halford.
A private in City of London Imperial Volunteers and Lance Corporal in the Ist Mdsx. (Victoria & St. Georges) RV. Died aged 22 at Karree on the 15th May 1900 during the South African Campaign.
City Imperial Volunteers has some interesting information about the CIV in the Boer/South Africa war and there we learnt that Halford died of enteric fever.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
George Edward Halford
This design was used repeatedly to commemorate the dead of the City of London...
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 8-21 January 1916, age 31, while serving in the Indian Medical Service, Indian Army. "Over a two week period, although shot in both arms and in the side he remaine...
Painter, printmaker and wood engraver. Born in Paris, the eldest child of Camille Pissarro. He visited England on several occasions, becoming a British citizen in 1916. A founder member of the Camd...
Archaeologist specialising in Egypt. Born Charlton, near Greenwich. His maternal grandfather was Captain Matthew Flinders. Petrie was a self-taught surveyor with minimal university education. St...