9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Died:
01/07/1916 (Killed in Action)
Age:
23
Summary
William J Hamilton was born at Lissan, Cookstown about 1893. William Hamilton and Isabella McNicholl were married on 28th March 1911 in the district of Cookstown. They lived in Ballynagilly, Lissan. William enlisted in Cookstown. Private William J Hamilton was serving with 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916.
The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, next to the village of Thiepval, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929). Each year a major ceremony is held at the memorial on 1 July.
