Elias Walker Durnford
Military Person
1774 – 1850
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Who was Elias Walker Durnford?
Major General Elias Walker Durnford R.E was the builder of the Citadel, Quebec City.
Durnford was born in 1774 in Lowestoft, Suffolk. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers on 24 April 1793. Durnford married Jane Sophia Mann on 30 October 1798. On 10 January 1837 he removed from the Corps, on being promoted to the rank of Major General. Major General Elias Walker Durnford R.E. died in 1850 in Clarence Villa, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, at the age of 75.
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