He played first-class cricket until the 1911/12 season, making eleven appearances for Western Province, in addition to four for Transvaal and one for The Rest.
[3] Difford married Katrina Wilhelmina van Lier Kuys in June 1913; they had two children.
[1] He served in the First World War with the South African Army, being commissioned in January 1917 as a temporary second lieutenant in the 1st Cape Corps.
[7] He was killed in action in Ottoman Palestine on 20 September 1918, during the Battle of Nablus.
[1] His brother Ivor and brother-in-law Murray Bisset both played first-class cricket.