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.
Further Information
William J Hamilton was born at Lissan, Cookstown about 1893. His middle name was either or John or Joshua.
William Hamilton and Isabella McNicholl were married on 28th March 1911 in the district of Cookstown.
The 1911 census lists William and Isabella living with the McNicholl’s at house 25 in Ballynagilly, Lissan, County Tyrone. They appear to have a child, James McNicholl, born 6th February 1911 (GRONI Ref. U/1911/99/1009/26/460).
William enlisted in Cookstown with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. They were raised at Omagh in September 1914 and were sent to France in October 1915. Their training continued up until the start of the Somme offensive.
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.
Private William J Hamilton has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial in France.
Private William Hamilton is also commemorated on Cookstown Cenotaph and is remembered at Church of Ireland, Lissan, on Remembrance Sunday.
The CWGC record Private William Joshua Hamilton as the husband of Isabella Hamilton of Hill Head, Stewartstown, County Tyrone.
