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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 418

Pair: Corporal D. M. Hamilton, 1/5th Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, who died of wounds received at the Third Battle of Gaza in November 1917

British War and Victory Medals (1484 Cpl. D. M. Hamilton, A. & S.H.), good very fine (2)

Daniel McKinnon Hamilton was born - and enlisted at - Campbeltown, Argyllshire. He first saw action with the 1/5th Battalion in France in May 1915; entitled to the Star.

Subsequently embarked for Egypt, and having been promoted to Corporal, he died of wounds in Palestine on 12 November 1917, wounds received at the Third Battle of Gaza.

Aged 20, he was the son of Mrs. and Mrs. Dan Hamilton of Campbeltown, Argyllshire and is buried in Deir el Belah War Cemetery.


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