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- In 1926 he embarked on the ship Khyber for Hong Kong; he was a Capt then. (Thanks to Jane Nantais who found this on FindMyPast"s records).
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The Times had this obit in its issue of 29 Mar 1941:
ADMIRAL G W HaLLIFAX
Rear-Admiral G W Hallifax, who had been killed in an air accident in the Cape Province at the age of 56, according to a message from our Capetown Correspondent, was Director of Seaward Defence in the Union Defence Force and had a distinguished naval career.
The son of Rear-Admiral J S Hallifax and Charlotte Annie, daughter of major-general de Courcy Hamilton VC, he joined H.M.S. Britannia in 1899, and in the last war served as first lieutenant and torpedo lieutenant on board H.M.S. Ajax. After being attached to the Interallied Commission in Berlin he served in H.M.S. Valiant, Home Fleet, from 1921 to 1923. He then attended various disarmarmament meetings at geneva and was promoted captain in 1924. Two years later he commanded the cruiser Carlisle, of the Chine Aquadron, remaining there until 1928. He was later appointed naval attaché in Paris and also served in that capacity in Madrid, Brussels and The hague. He returned to active naval duties when he was appointed in command of H.M.S. Malaya, Home Fleet, from 1932 to 1934. In 1935 he became Director of the Signal Division of the Admiralty, and was promoted Rear-Admiral, retired, in the same year.
Rear-Admiral Hallifax went out to South Africa as secretary to Lord Clarendon, who was then Governor-General in South Africa, in 1936, and continued in this capacity for the first four months of the governor-generalship of Sir Patrick Duncan. On the outbreak of war he took charge of the seaward defences at Capetown. In 1930 he married Madeleine Summer Theed.
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Who Was Who had this on him:
HALLIFAX, Rear-Admiral Guy Waterhouse (1884-1941)
Details: HALLIFAX, Rear-Admiral Guy Waterhouse, CMG 1938; RN Retd; Director of Seaward Defence Union Defence Force; born 21 June 1884;
son of late Rear-Admiral John Salway Hallifax and of Charlotte Annie,
daughter of Maj.-Gen. de Courcy Hamilton, VC; married 1930, Madeleine Summer Theed, daughter of George Simms, Sunningdale; no children.
Education: privately; HMS Britannia.
Work: Joined Britannia, 1899; Lieut 1905; Lt-Comdr 1913; Comdr 1917; Captain, 1924; Rear-Admiral, 1935; Retd 1935; Commanded HMS Carlisle, China Squadron, 1926-1928; Naval AttachÈ, Paris, 1928-1931; HMS Malaya, Home Fleet, 1932-1934; Director Signal Division Admiralty, 1934-1935; Secretary to Governor-General of Union of S. Africa, 1936-1937.
Address: Fair View, Highwick Drive, Kenilworth, Cape Town.
Clubs: Army and Navy, Civil Service, Cape Town.
Died: 28 March 1941
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Marginal corroboration of his later career is to be found, thanks to Jane nantais in theBritish Embarkation records on FindMyPast. He and his wife departed on the ship "City of Exeter" on 20 Aug 1938 for Capetown; they had been staying at the Granby St. Hotel, London SW7 and had most probably been on holiday from his work in South Africa.
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- From the Commonwealth Graves site (www.cwgc.org):
Name: HALLIFAX, GUY WATERHOUSE
Initials: G W
Nationality: South African
Rank: Rear Admiral
Regiment: South African Naval Forces
Unit Text: Director of
Age: 56
Date of Death: 28/03/1941
Service No: 70000
Awards: CMG
Additional information: Son of Rear Admiral John Salwey Hallifax and Charlotte Annie Hallifax; husband of Madeleine Hallifax, of Cape Town.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Coll. grave UL. 131.
Cemetery: CAPE TOWN (PLUMSTEAD) CEMETERY
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Abt 1884 - 1941 (~ 56 years)
