Photographs | document and maps. of the Hamilton family
Two soldiers : on right Frederick Hamilton, Killed in Action 6th August 1917. Other man unknown;
Gospel (St. Mark);
Group photograph showing Frederick Hamilton of Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Also shown James Hamilton,(grandfather to Denis) who did not enter the army and a friend Matthew Woods, Northern Irish Horse;
The Hamilton family of 1914. Alexander, Henrietta, Frederick standing. Florence Lynn Hamilton and James Hamilton. Child Sarah Hamilton;
5. Grave registration card, F. Hamilton. Brandhoek New Military Cemetery, Ieper, Flanders; official documentation relating to the army career and burial of F Hamilton; photograph of F Hamilton from 1913
These are photographs, documents and maps of the Hamilton Family and especially Frederick Hamilton of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who was killed in action on 6 August 1917. Frederick Hamilton, our grandfather, was born to a Church of Ireland family in 1894, and was working in the Jamet Hotel off Dame Street in Dublin, before joining up at the outbreak of war.
The last Hamilton family photograph
This image, taken in 1914, was the last time that the Hamilton family of Dublin were together for a family photograph. Alexander and Frederick, standing in uniform in the back row, did not survive the war.
CONTRIBUTOR
Dennis Thornton
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LANGUAGE
eng
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16
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Europeana 1914-1918
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