Flying Officer George Searle Lomax Hayward MC (1 November 1894 – 16 August 1924) was an English World War I aerial observer credited with 24 victories.
He served as an observer/gunner for fellow aces Frank Weare, Ernest Elton, and William Lewis Wells.
22 Squadron RFC, he scored twenty-four victories as an observer in the Bristol F.2 Fighter, between November 1917 and April 1918.
His citation read: Hayward left the Royal Air Force on 17 May 1919, when he was transferred to the unemployed list.
[12] There, on 15 August, Hayward was instructing Pilot Officer Charles Victor Breakey in an Avro 504K, when their aircraft suffered an engine failure and plunged into the ground.