{{Short description|Royal Navy and South African Navy officer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}} {{Use British English|date=January 2018}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = Rear-Admiral | name = Guy Hallifax | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CMG}} | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = Guy Hallifax.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1884|06|21}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1941|03|28|1884|06|21}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Uys|first=Ian|title=South African Military Who's Who 1452-1992|year=1992|publisher=Fortress Publishers|page=[https://archive.org/details/southafricanmili0000uysi/page/98 98]|isbn=0-9583173-3-X|url=https://archive.org/details/southafricanmili0000uysi/page/98}}</ref> | birth_place = South Stoneham, Hampshire, England<ref name="red1st.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.red1st.com/axholme/getperson.php?personID=I1750042987&tree=Axholme|title=Rear Admiral Guy Waterhouse Hallifax|access-date=3 January 2015}}</ref> | death_place = Baboon Point, 74 km north of Saldanha, Western Cape {{coord|32|19|0.00|S|18|19|0.00|E|display=inline, title}} | burial_place = Plumstead Cemetery | burial_label = | burial_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}} --> | nickname = | birth_name = | allegiance = | branch = Royal Navy | service_years = | rank = Rear-Admiral | service_number = | unit = | commands = | battles = | battles_label = | awards = {{MilAward Stack|CMG |ITOSMLC |OEOM|size=x12px}}<ref name="WaratSea" /> | relations = | other_work = | signature = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> }}
Rear-Admiral '''Guy Waterhouse Hallifax''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CMG}}<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34518|supp=y|page=3689|date=9 June 1938}}</ref> (21 June 1884{{snd}}28 March 1941) was a Royal Navy officer who was recruited by the South African government to organise a navy.
== Naval career == Hallifax joined HMS ''Britannia'' in 1899 and served as a Naval Advisor in Turkey, for which he was awarded the {{em|Order of the Medjideh (3rd class)}}.<ref name="WaratSea">{{cite book | title=War at Sea: South African Maritime Operations during WW2 | publisher=Ashanti Publishing | last1=Harris|first1=C J | year=1991 | page=9 | isbn=9781874800163|series=Issue 5 of South Africans at war|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=88d8AAAAIAAJ}}</ref> During the First World War served as first lieutenant and torpedo lieutenant on board {{HMS|Ajax|1912|6}}. After being attached to the Inter-Allied Commission in Berlin he served in HMS ''Valiant'', Home Fleet, from 1921 to 1923. He then attended various disarmament meetings at Geneva and was promoted captain in 1924. Two years later he commanded the cruiser {{HMS|Carlisle|D67|6}}, of the China Squadron, 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 to command of {{HMS|Malaya}} 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.<ref name="red1st.com"/>
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.<ref name="SANMuseum">{{cite web | url=https://sanavymuseum.co.za/2021/03/28/into-the-mist/#_edn2 | title=ADMIRAL HALLIFAX AND THE LODESTAR ACCIDENT: 80 YEARS AGO | publisher=South African Naval Museum | date=Mar 28, 2021 | access-date=May 7, 2021 | author=Steyn, Leon}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |journal=South African Military History Society - Journal |title=Admiral Hallifax and the Lodestar Accident: 80 Years Ago |url=http://samilitaryhistory.org/jnl2/vol192ls.html |access-date=15 April 2023 |via=samilitaryhistory.org}}</ref> On the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he was recruited by the South African government to organise a navy, which was named the Seaward Defence Force.<ref name="UnPub" />
==South African Navy== As Director of the Seaward Defence Force, he established a small fleet of minesweepers and anti-submarine vessels for coastal defence, and organised naval detachments in the major ports. On the 15 January 1940, the new Seaward Defence Force (SDF) took over responsibility for naval defence from the Royal Navy.<ref name="UnPub" />{{rp|1}} Cdr James Dalgleish was appointed as commander of one of the newly formed {{em|Port Divisions}} (later renamed {{em|detachments}}). Dalgleish was soon thereafter to rise to command the SDF on the death of Hallifax.<ref name="UnPub" />{{rp|1}}
==Promotions== * Confirmed in the rank of Sub-Lieutenant 15 July 1903.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27754|page=328|date=13 January 1905 }}</ref> * Sub-Lieutenant to Lieutenant 15 January 1905.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32952|page=4630|date=4 July 1905}}</ref> * Commander to Captain 30 June 1924.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32952|page=5083|date=1 July 1924}}</ref> * Captain to Rear-Admiral 3 October 1935.<ref name = "Admiral">{{London Gazette|issue=34204|page=6216|date=4 October 1935}}</ref> * Placed on the Retired List 4 October 1935.<ref name = "Admiral"/>
==Death== He was killed on the 28 March 1941 in an aeroplane crash at Baboon Point, {{convert|74|km|mi}} north of Saldanha while returning from a tour of inspection to the newly established naval detachment in Walvis Bay.<ref>{{cite book|last1 = Goosen|first1 = JC|title = South Africa's Navy The First Fifty Years|publisher = WJ Flesch & Partners|year = 1973|location = Cape Town|page = 228|isbn = 0-949989-02-9}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=South African Legion - DEATH OF REAR ADMIRAL G. W. HALLIFAX CMG|quote= On 28 March 1941 Rear Admiral Guy Hallifax (first Director of the Seaward Defence Force) was returning from a staff visit to Walvis Bay when a South African Airways Lockheed 18-08 Lodestar, Registration ZS-AST en-route to Cape Town, flew into the high ground near Elands Bay in dense fog. There were no survivors. Those killed are buried in a mass grave in the Plumstead Cemetery in Cape Town. CREW: 102796 Captain Frederick Wilhelm Le Roux (Pilot & Aircraft Commander). P/203109 Lieutenant Johannes Petrus Meyer (Co-Pilot). 29383 Air Sergeant John William Shelly (Flight Engineer). 96365 Air Sergeant Andries Petrus van Wijk (Flight Engineer) PASSENGERS: 7000 Rear Admiral Guy Waterhouse Hallifax CMG (Director of the South African Seaward Defence Force). P/13349 Colonel Harold Ernst Cilliers (Deputy Director of the South African Coastal Defence Corps). P/40727 Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Pitcairn (Deputy Director Technical Services, Coastal Defence Corps). C. P. McMichall. Building contractor. Morris Kaplan. Building contractor. A, Kendierski. Building contractor. The South African Agency of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintains the grave. |url=https://www.facebook.com/SouthAfricanLegion/photos/a.146384618864612/434396383396766/ |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=www.facebook.com |language=en|first1=Charles|last1=Ross}}</ref><ref name="UnPub">{{Cite journal |last1=Bisset |first1=W. M. |title=Unpublished Chapters from the Official History of the SA Naval Forces During the Second World War |date=1992 |url=https://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/333 |journal=Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies |language=en |volume=22 |issue=1 |doi=10.5787/22-1-333 |issn=2224-0020|doi-access=free }}</ref>{{rp|10}}
== Awards == * {{MilAward Desc|CMG|x25px|country=ZAR}} * {{MilAward Desc|ITOSMLC|x25px|country=ZAR}}<ref name="WaratSea" /> * {{MilAward Desc|OEOM|x25px|country=ZAR}}
== References == {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== * {{DP-xlink|http://dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Guy_Waterhouse_Hallifax}}
==See also== *List of South African military chiefs *South African Navy
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