Name
Herbert Otho Hamilton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/09/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Northumberland Fusiliers
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 20 to 22.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Pre War
Herbert was the only son of the Rev. William Frederic Tucker Hamilton (Vicar of Cromer) and his wife Maud, born in Eastbourne on the 18th of September 1892.
He was educated at St. Clare at Walmer, and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating a B.A. in June 1914.
Herbert married Muriel Dora Wakley in Tring on the 28th of January 1915.
Wartime Service
He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. on the 19th of September 1914 and promoted Lieut. 23rd of January 1915. He went to France in September 1915 and was reported wounded and missing after the attack on Hill 70 at the Battle of Loos, later assumed to have been killed in action.
Acknowledgments
Derry Warners
