Author talk:William Robert Hamilton

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WW1

Name: William Robert Hamilton
Death Date: 12 Oct 1917
Rank: 2 Lieutenant
Regiment: Coldstream Guards
Battalion: Battalion Not Shown
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Comments: Att 4Th M G Gd

Name: William Robert Hamilton
Death Date: 12 Oct 1917
Rank: 2 Lieutenant
Regiment: Guards Machine Gun Regiment
Battalion: 4th Battalion
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Comments: Cold Gd

• Army Medal Office. WWI Medal Index Cards.

Name: William Robert Hamilton
Regiment or Corps: Colds Gds Attd, MG Gds

No particular personal detail on index card, though father noted as
J. C. Hamilton Esq. 105 Kloof St, Cape Town

Death

• Cape Estates Death Index. Records of the Master's Office / Orphan Chamber, Cape Town. Cape Town Archives & National Archives, Cape Town.

Name: William Robert Hamilton
Death Date: 1917
Volume: 6/9/1007
Reference: 3863
Source: Master's Office / Orphan Chamber, Cape Town (MOOC)
Source location: Cape Town Archives Repository

burial

• Find a grave

Second Lieutenant William Robert Hamilton
Birth unknown
Death 12 Oct 1917
Burial
Tyne Cot Memorial
Zonnebeke, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium
Plot Panel 9 to 10.
Memorial ID 11941298

• CWGC https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/838238/hamilton,-william-robert/

Second LieutenantHAMILTON, WILLIAM ROBERT
Died 12/10/1917
Aged 26
Coldstream Guards
attd. 4th Coy.
Machine Gun Guards
Son of John Hamilton, of 105, Kloof St., Cape Town, South Africa.

father

• National Archives; Cape Town, South Africa; Death Notice Records

Name: John Crosby Hamilton
Death Age: 76
Marital status: Married
Occupation: Retired
Relation to Head: Head
Birth Date: abt 1868
Birth Place: Dumfries Scotland
Residence Place: 105A Kloof Street Cape Town
Marriage Place: Cape Town
Death Date: 2 May 1944
Death Place: Mowbray CP
Notice Date: 8 May 1944
Notice Place: Cape Town
Spouse: Agnes Mary Hamilton
Notice Signed By: AM Hamilton
Signed Capacity: Surviving Spouse
Left Will: Yes
Other info: William died 1917
Reference Number: 92122
Volume Number: 6/9/10906
Relatives:
Name Relation
John Crosby Hamilton Head
Agnes Mary Hamilton Spouse
Jean Hamilton Deceased Spouse
William Hamilton Child