GPS 26 deg 9 min 51.89 sec S, 28 deg 7 min 36.8 sec E
Significance
George Farrar was a member Johannesburg Reform Committee and
implicated in the events leading to the Jameson Raid in 1896.
He was awarded the DSO for service as an intelligence officer in the Kaffrarian
Rifles in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902.
In WW 1, he was responsible for restoring the railway and water supply
during the South African invasion of German South West Africa via Luderitz.
He was killed in a rail accident in the operational area in May 1915.
THIS IS THE GRAVE OF COLONEL SIR GEORGE FARRAR, BARONET D.S.O. M.L.A. BORN 17 JUNE 1857 A PIONEER OF THIS CITY AND OF THE WITWATERSRAND FROM 1885. LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION IN THE TRANSVAAL LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY 1907 - 1910 MEMBER OF THE FIRST PARLIAMENT OF THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA 1910 - 1915 KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE 20 MAY 1915
