[1] He competed in the men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
[2] Seward was later a pilot with No 14 Squadron in the Royal Flying Corps in Palestine from 1916-1918.
[4] Seward swam four miles under enemy fire to an outpost of the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment, ANZAC.
This was memorialized in a painting, The Seward Exploit, and is in the collection of the Imperial War Museum, RAF Section.
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