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Service Details

Name:	HAMILTON
Given Name:	PAUL GEORGE
Initials:	P G
Service No:	176162
Rank:	Lance Corporal Other Casualties of this Rank
Regiment:	South African Medical Corps Other Casualties from this Regiment
Unit:	17 Field Amb. Other Casualties from this Unit
Date of Death:	1943-12-08 Other Casualties on this Date
Age:	23
Cause of Death:	Died as a POW, whilst being loaded onto railway wagons to be transported to Germany, the rail yards at Aquila were bombed by USAF B-25 bombers. About 200 POWs were killed, all who were trapped in locked cattle cars.
Additional Information:	Son of Frank I. and Marguerite K. Hamilton, of La Rochelle, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa.

Commemoration

Country:	Italy Other Casualties commemorated in Italy
Cemetery:	ANCONA WAR CEMETERY Other Casualties commemorated in this Cemetery

Grave Reference:	III. E. 20.

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