George Malcolm Fox

Fox began his military career serving with the 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot from 1863-1875, being promoted to Lieutenant in 1865 and Captain in 1871.

In Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville's painting The Storming of Tel el Kebir (1882) Fox is depicted to the left wounded in the shoulder and being held by another soldier, whereas in reality he was shot in the thigh.

[4] Fox had an interest in physical training, in particular in fencing and boxing, and he organised various sporting competitions in the Army which lead to his appointment at Aldershot in April 1883 as Assistant Inspector of Gymnasia under Colonel G. M. Onslow.

[10] As Inspector of Gymnasia Fox had the responsibility for deciding which skills needed to be incorporated to form the set routines for gymnastics competitions in Scotland.

He was temporarily Inspector of Gymnasia from 1900 to 1902 during his retirement while Lieutenant-Colonel J. Scott Napier, the then holder of the post was employed in South Africa during the Boer War.