1914/15 Star named CAPT J K M HAMILTON R SCOTS, British War & Victory Medals named BT MAJOR J K M HAMILTON, WW2 Defence & War Medals privately named 245 LT COL J K M HAMILTON R SCOTS all unnamed as issued on a bar to wear. Comes with a copy photo of him from IWM.
WW2 Defence & War Medals privately named 2204 J RUTH HAMILTON FANY on a bar to wear.
James Kenneth Montgomerie Hamilton born in 1885, Son of Mr Hugh Montgomerie Hamilton a Barrister of Sydney, New South Wales, who also played Rugby for Scotland 1874/75 and Grandson of Hugh & Mrs Julia Hamilton of 1 Barns Street, Ayr. He was educated at Cheltenham College 1898 to 1902 and obtained a commission in the Royal Scots in 1904. He married Julia Ruth Polkinghorne in 1912.
When WW1 came he was a Captain in the 1/4th Royal Scots and was sent out to Gallipoli arriving on 12th June 1915 and was appointed the Adjutant. On the 28th June 1915 the regiment attacked the Turks on the Achi Baba ridge but were beaten back by murderous gun fire and also fire from the grass that caught light. Capt Hamilton was seriously wounded in action with a lot of other officers and he was evacuated to Alexandria and then onto the UK to stay at Netley Hospital to undergo several operations - a local newspaper confirmed, His left arm is smashed and his hand is at present useless. He is also suffering from wounds to the head.
In June 1917 he was appointed to the Commands and Staff, working on the General Staff and made a Brig Major attached to Head Quarters Units. He was released from HQ in Sept 1918 and was retired due to ill health on 31st May 1922 from the Royal Scots.
He was called back in WW2 as a Emergency Reserve Officer and it appears he was the Quatering Commandant in Plymouth and his wife was in the F A N Y as a driver. They moved in high society visiting attending the Buckingham Palace Royal Garden Party in 1947.
He died in 1964 in St Austell, Cornwall.
Lt Col Hamilton and Mrs Julia Hamilton Son called Kenneth Innes Hamilton won a DSC & Bar in WW2 with the Royal Navy on HMS Moari 1942 & HMS Penelope 1942 Malta Convoys. Lt Col Hamilton brother was Rear Admiral Hugh Dundas Hamilton Royal Navy.
