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

Name: 	William Robert Hamilton Regiment or Corps: 	Colds Gds Attd, MG Gds
 * Army Medal Office. WWI Medal Index Cards.

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

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

burial
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
 * Find a grave

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

father
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
 * National Archives; Cape Town, South Africa; Death Notice Records