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HAMILTON, Herbert William
(Service number 7/1020)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank	Trooper

Birth

Date	24 April 1892	Place of Birth	Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	c/- M Hamilton, Solicitor, Waimate
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	WM Hamilton (father) Solicitor, Waimate
Religion	PresbyTERIAN
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	4th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Date	17 April 1915
Transport	HMNZT 21, 22, 23 Willochra, Knight Templar Waitomo
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	4 January 1983	Age	91
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Great nephew Michael Walton recounted that Herbert Hamilton worked as a surveyor in Malaya between the wars. He was captured by the Japanese during their advance through South East Asia and spent the remainder of the war interred in Changi prison.

Hamilton died circa 1983-1985.

Sources

Personal conversation between Michael Walton, great nephew, and Tony Rippin, 278 January 2015.

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Liz Shea (SC branch NZSG)

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