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HAMILTON, Hugh Staples
(Service number 23/443)

Aliases
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank

Birth

Date	26/10/1894	Place of Birth	Leeston

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Bank of New South Wales, Geraldine
Occupation	Clerk in Holy Orders
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Reverend Canon HAMILTON (father), Vicarage, Geraldine
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	1st Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	B Company
Date	9 October 1915
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Wounded in France in September 1916.

Post-war Occupations

Clerk in Holy Orders

Death

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New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of Canon Staples HAMILTON & Louisa Annie nee PRESTON. Half-brother of Hubert Arthur HAMILTON, killed in action 1915 at Gallipoli, & of Gordon Cuthbert HAMILTON who also served in WWI.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [13 October 2013]; Timaru Herald, 28 September 1916 (Papers Past) [13 November 2013]

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