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Col. George Herbert Farrar DSO, MID.

South Africa Active Citizen Force General Staff

from:South Africa

(d.20th May 1915)

Colonel Sir George Farrar 1st Bart. served in the South African Campaign and in South West Africa, 1914-15. He was the Member for Georgetown in the Union Parliament, 1910-11.

On 19th of May 1915 while returning from a tour of inspection, his motor trolley collided with a construction train at Kuibis, near Gibeon, and he succumbed to his injuries the following day. He was 55 when he died and is buried in the Bedford Farm Cemetery, Gauteng, South Africa.



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