HAMILTON, Alexander
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Rank:
Driver
Unit / Base:
11 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Corps of Signals
Service:
Army
Number:
2576082
Died :
Monday, June 9, 1941
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
19
Cemetery/Memorial:
Operations:
Driver Alexander Hamilton was killed in action during operations at Litani River, Syria.
Son of the late Private James Hamilton, RASC, killed in action 5 months earlier, and of Catherine Hamilton, of Stirling.
Extract from the Stirling Observer
"17 July 1941.
Information has been received in Stirling that Pte. Alexander Hamilton, Royal Corps of Signals, has been killed in action in the Middle East. He was the only son of the late Pte. James Hamilton, RASC, and Mrs Hamilton, 21 Hazelbank Gardens, Stirling. His father was killed in action in Egypt in January of this year.
Pte Hamilton who was a Territorial before the war worked in civilian life with McGrouther's Bacon Curing factory, Stirling. We extend our Sympathy to Mrs Hamilton, bereft of husband and son in the space of a few months and wish her a successful recovery from the illness which has necessitated her undergoing an operation in Stirling Royal Infirmary."
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/27.
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/27.
Report in the Stirling Observer 17 July 1941.
[Image] Report in the Stirling Observer 22 July 1941.
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