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HAMILTON, William Keith Renwick
(Service number 61968)

Aliases
First Rank	Second Lieutenant	Last Rank

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Medical Student
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs P. R. HAMILTON (mother), Park Lane, Timaru
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	36th Reinforcements C Company
Date	23 April 1918
Transport	Willochra
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Southampton, England

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

11 October 1918 admitted to hospital in England, with a gun-shot wound in the right arm.

Post-war Occupations

Surgeon

Death

Date	11 August 1967	Age	67 yrs
Place of Death	England
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Cremated; ashes interred Timaru Cemetery (15 March 1976)
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 36, Plot 1
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of Alexander Ferrier & Phyllis Carruthers (nee RENWICK) HAMILTON

Sources

Cenotaph Database [23 October 2013]; TDC headstone image Timaru Cemetery [23 October 2013]; Timaru Herald, 24 October 1918 (Papers Past) [18 November 2013]

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