FORD, Harry George Wakelyn. Captain, York and Lancaster Regiment, late of 56th Wessex Regiment. Born at Chatham on the 27th March 1848 and was killed in action at Tamaa, Eastern Sudan, 13th March 1884. He was the son of Staff Surgeon William Michael and Anne Agnes nee Smith and grandson of late Lieutenant Colonel Charles Smith of Whittlesea, Isle of Ely.
Captain Harry George Wakelyn FORD
York and Lancaster Regiment Killed at the Battle of Tamasi, March 13.
Captain Harry George Wakelyn FORD was born in 1848. He was gazetted as Ensign to the 11th Foot in 1865, but did not join this regiment. He subsequently served in the 7th {the Royal Fusiliers}, in the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, and in this became Lieutenant in 1871. He afterwards joined the 56th {"the Pompadours"} and the York and Lancaster Regiment, to which he was gazettedCaptain in 1880, and with which he was killed in action at Tamasi. Captain FORD was the youngest son of William M. FORD, Staff Surgeon A.M.D., who died at Cephalonia, Ionian Islands, in 1850, in the exercise of the profession during the outbreak of cholera among the British troops there, and who had seen active service in China and at the Cape of Good Hope during the Kaffir War. Captain FORD was grandson of the late Lieut.-Colonel Charles SMITH, of Whittlesea, J.P.and D.L. of the Isle of Ely, who was wounded at Waterloo, where he fought with his brothers, the late Lieut.-General Sir Harry G.W. SMITH, Baronet of Aliwal, G.C.B., and the late Colonel Thomas Lawrence SMITH, C.B., for many years Barrack-master at Chatham and Aldershot.
