SOLDIER DETAILS:
Hamilton,
James
Private 24th Battalion 142280
September 19, 1916
Boulougne
Eastern Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Son of Sarah Hamilton, wife of Mary Hamilton of Milton Heights
Maple
Leaf Legacy Project
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Victoria Park Cenotaph
R. Laughton
Bolougne Eastern Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves
Maple Leaf Legacy Project
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Private Hamilton
is commemorated on the Victoria Park Cenotaph in Milton
ON.
Private Hamilton is buried
in the Bolougne Eastern Cemetery, Pas de Calais France.
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SOLDIER SUMMARY:
| Private Hamilton was married to Mary Hamilton and
was the son of Sarah Hamilton, both of Milton Heights, (Nassagaweya) Ontario.
Private Hamilton attested to the 76th Battalion on September
15, 1915 and was transferred to the 24th Battalion (2nd
Division, 5th Infantry Brigade) on June 28, 1916. He received
shrapnel wounds to his face, leg and knee on September 18, 1916
and died of the wounds the following day at the No. 13
Stationary Hospital at the Port of Bolougne.
The September
15, 1916 War Diary provides a typed page of the activity at
the Sugar Factory at "Munster Alley", as the 4th and
6th Brigade mounted the attack against the Village of
Courcelette. The men of the 24th Battalion were carrying bombs,
ammunition and stretchers for the attack. The 24th Battalion
lost 330 of the 1,267 men killed during an intense period of
counter attacks on the night of September 15, 1916 (diary
page). 
Courcelette in September 1915
Nicholson Map 6
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The soldier pages contain information
that is available from a number of resources. The following hyperlinks
are active where the information is available:
The summary of the service is taken from
the soldier's service records, if they were available from Library and
Archives Canada. A complete copy of the service record is
available in electronic and paper format in the Alex
Cooke Memorial Archives at the Milton Historical Society.
Using that summary, combined with the key references, a summary of the
events leading up to the death of the soldier has been prepared.
The research information available is as noted on the Canadian
Expeditionary Force Study Group web site Matrix
Project as well as in the Library and Archives Canada On-Line
War Diaries.
A summary of all the soldiers is
contained on the Web Blog "Great
War Soldiers of Milton, Ontario CANADA". Please also
be sure to purchase your own copy of "Milton
Remembers World War I - The Men and Women We Never Knew" by
John Challinor II and Jim Dills, edited by Ken Lamb. |
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