Alexander Alfred Hayton

Brigadier Alexander Alfred Hayton, VD, DSO,[1] was a South African officer. During World War I he served as a lieutenant in the East African Campaign and in Egypt.[2] He was the commanding officer of the 4th South African Brigade in the Western Desert Campaign in North Africa during World War II.[3] In civilian life he worked as Chief Traffic Officer in Johannesburg.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 37822. p. 6163. 17 December 1946.
  2. ^ Difford, Ivor Denis (1920). The story of the 1st Battalion Cape Corps, 1915–1919. Cape Town: Hortors. http://www.archive.org/details/storyof1stbattal00diffuoft. Retrieved 2010-01-05. 
  3. ^ Orpen, Neil D. (1971). War in the desert. South African Forces World War II. 3. Purnell. 
  4. ^ Hayton, A.A. (1938). "The Roads Accident Viewpoint of Disease and Accident Prevention on the Witwatersrand". The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health 59 (2): 172–179. doi:10.1177/146642403805900209. http://rsh.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/59/2/172. 
  5. ^ "Correspondence". S.A. Medical Journal 27 (Jul–Dec): 1192. 1953. http://196.33.159.102/1953%20VOL%20XXVII%20Jul-Dec/Articles/06%20December/4.11%20CORRESPONDENCE.pdf. 

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