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Frederick Alexander HAMILTON

Regimental number25942
Place of birthSouth Melbourne, Victoria
SchoolAlbert Park State School, Albert Park, Victoria
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationLetter carrier
Address11 Shaftesbury Street, Coburg, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation18
Next of kinFather, F A Hamilton, 11 Shaftesbury Street, Coburg, Victoria
Previous military service59th Infantry
Enlistment date14 February 1916
Rank on enlistmentDriver
Unit nameDivisional Ammunition Column 1, Reinforcement 18
AWM Embarkation Roll number25/89/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A67 Orsova on 1 August 1916
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll5th Machine Gun Battalion
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularDied of Pneumonia at 1st Dermatological Hospital, Bulford, England
FateDied of disease 1 February 1919
Place of death or woundingBulford, England
Age at death21
Age at death from cemetery records21
Place of burialTidworth Military Cemetery (Row C, Grave NO. 360), North Tidworth, Wiltshire
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
176
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Frederick and Selina HAMILTON, 50 The Grove, Coburg, Victoria

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