9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Died:
01/07/1916 (Killed in Action)
Age:
22
Summary
George Hamilton was born at Lissan, near Cookstown, about 1894. Little is known of George Hamilton’s background. George Hamilton enlisted at Finner Camp, Ballyshannon / Bundoran, County Donegal. Private George Hamilton was serving with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on Saturday 1st July 1916 when the battalion attacked the Schwaben Redoubt near Thiepval.
Further Information
George Hamilton was born at Lissan, near Cookstown, about 1894.
Little is known of George Hamilton’s background. The census records a George Hamilton of that age living in the Lissan area at that time. See references.
George Hamilton enlisted at Finner Camp, Ballyshannon / Bundoran, County Donegal.
Private George Hamilton was serving with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on Saturday 1st July 1916 when the battalion attacked the Schwaben Redoubt near Thiepval.
Private George Hamilton has no known grave and was not commemorated with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission until recently.
Due to the work of Wesley Wright of the Friends of the Somme (Mid Ulster Branch), George Hamilton is now listed in the CWGC.
Private George Hamilton has no known grave and is commemorated on the Addenda Panel of the Thiepval Memorial at the Somme.
