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His hope has been realised, but he was not to witness its fulfilment; he died of pneumonia on the 28th January 1918, and is buried at Wimereux.

William Hamilton was a South African who, like the Australian Geoffrey Wall, came over to enlist in England. He was a Lecturer in Philosophy at University College, Cape Town, and while training here, in 1916, for the Machine Gun Guards, in which he took a commission, he collected for publication the verses that are bound up in his Modern Poems. A preface dated from Victoria Barracks, Windsor, mentions that most of the poems 'were written in