Husband of Mrs. Marian Helen Hamilton (nee Elliot), of 71 Hol Street, Johannesburg. ref. LG 22-August-1918 - Brought to the Notice of the Secretary of State for War - "For distinguished service in the Field and in connection with the campaign in German South-West Africa, 1914-15". From King's College, London - We regret to announce the death of Dr. Hamilton which took place on March 8th at his residence in Johannesburg, South Africa. The son of a Naval Surgeon, he was born at Rathgar, near Dublin, in 1867. Entering Guy's in 1886 he became a distinguished student, taking honours in Physiology at the B.Sc. Examination in 1889. He took the Conjoint Qualification in 1891. At London University he took the M.B., B.S., (Honours in Medicine and Forensic Medicine) in 1892; M.D. in 1893 and M.S. in 1895; and F.R.C.S. in 1893. After serving an appointment as House-Surgeon to Sir H.G. Howse, he became Demonstrator of Anatomy at Guy's a post he held for four or five years. In 1898 Dr. Hamilton went out to South Africa and started practice on the Rand. During the Boer War he was medical officer on one of the hospital ships and in various hospitals ashore. After serving with the rank of Major in the field during the recent rebellion, Dr. Hamilton became principal medical Officer at Swakopmund, the chief post of German South West Africa, now in British occupation, where he developed an intestinal complaint, and, being much run down from pressure of work, he was ordered to Johannesburg to recuperate. There he became subject to attacks of mental depression, and it is supposed that in one of these fits he terminated his life, as he was found with a fatal bullet wound in his head. On Guy's Hospital Memorial
***Accepted by CWGC for War Grave Status & burial site under investigation