Service Details
Name:
 HAMILTON
Given Name:
 WILLIAM ROBERT
Initials:
 W R
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Coldstream Guards
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Unit 2:
 attd. 4th Coy. Machine Gun Guards
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Date of Death:
 1917-10-12
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Date of Birth:
 1891-04-25
Age:
 26
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, attack on Houthulst Forest. On October 12th the 3rd Guards' Brigade attacked enemy positions south of Houthulst Forest. This machine gun company sent 14 guns to assist. Six were detailed for Barrage fire under Lt Cooke at [Wijzenroff?], two under 2nd Lieut Fallows at Pascal Farm, three under 2nd Lieut Hamilton went forward with the advancing Infantry while three guns under Lieut Wallis were in immediate reserve about Egypt House
Additional
Information:
Son of John Crosbie and Jeanie Brown Hamilton, of 105, Kloof St., Cape Town, South Africa. Born Dumfries, Scotland. Educated Cape Town St. George's Grammar School, South African College, and Cape Town University. A poet of the Great War
Commemoration
Country:
 Belgium
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Locality:
 Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen
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Cemetery:
 TYNE COT MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 9 to 10.

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