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.
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George Edward Halford
This design was used repeatedly to commemorate the dead of the City of London...
Appointed governor of Shrewsbury in 1645 and was a colonel in Cromwell's Parliamentary army. Died in London and was buried in Westminster Abbey. When Charles II was restored to the throne he order...
Born London. Naval officer involved in the American revolution. Died in Hanover Square.
From the parish of St Peter's in Bethnal Green and killed in WW1, a private aged 34.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC) was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (aka Octavian).
This family lived at Hindle House, Arcola Street, Hackney and they all died there when a high explosive bomb landed. Buried at Abney Park Cemetery Stoke Newington London.
Town Clerk and joint Honorary Secretary of the statue committee, Woolwich Council in 1905. We found reference to him still Town Clerk there in 1923.