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a. Note:   Found no children listed on free BMD. London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 about John Colquhoun Walford Name: John Colquhoun Walford Record Type: Baptism Estimated Birth Date: abt 1882 Baptism Date: 9 Jul 1882 Father's Name: Alfred Saunders Walford Mother's Name: Lucy Bethia Walford Parish or Poor Law Union: Bayswater Borough: Westminster Births Jun 1882 Walford John Colquhoun Kensington 1a 162 The London Gazette WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER, 1914. War Office,11 November, 1914. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the appointment of the under mentioned Officers to be Companions of the Distinguished Service Order, in recognition of their services with the Expeditionary Force, specified below: � Captain John Colquhoun Walford, 119th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. For gallant conduct at Eloges on the 24th of August, where he was wounded in two places, and at Le Cateau on- the 26th of August, where, in spite of pain from his wounds, he showed a fine example in bringing limbers and teams up under a heavy fire. =============== John Colquhoun Walford was born on May 22nd 1882, the son of Alfred Saunders Walford, a merchant, and his wife, the novelist Lucy Bethia Walford (ne� Colquhoun) of 43 Clanricarde Gardens, Bayswater. He attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and was commissioned as a Second-Lieutenant into the Royal Field Artillery on 23rd July 1901. In 1909, when he married Honora Cecilia Calmady-Hamlyn at Bridestowe, he was with the 149th Battery RFA stationed at Ballincollig, Co. Cork. He was promoted to Captain in July 1914. During the First World War he went overseas to France on 20th August 1914 with the 119th Battery RFA. The Battery was amongst the first to engage the enemy and fought with distinction at Eloges on August 24th where Captain Francis Octavius Grenfell was the first officer in the British Army to win the Victoria Cross in the war. Captain Walford was appointed a companion of the Distinguished Service Order "for gallant conduct at Eloges on the 24th of August, where he was wounded in two places, and at Le Cateau on the 26th of August, where, in spite of pain from his wounds, he showed a fine example in bringing limbers and teams up under a heavy fire" (London Gazette 10 November 1914). In 1916 he was in the Persian Gulf where he was wounded but he later served (in 1917) with the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division artillery in France and Flanders and then the 4th (Army) Brigade RFA. He qualified for the 1914 Star with Mons clasp, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. He made a series of sketches of the Western Front which are at the Royal Artillery Museum. In March 1929, a Major John Colquhoun Walford DSO, aged 46, was arrested and charged with embezzlement of �150 from the Herefordshire Rural Community Council while he was its secretary. He later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in June 1929. He died, aged 70, in 1953. Deaths Jun 1953 WALFORD John C 70 Newton A. 7a 518


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