Pair: Captain C. N. M. Hamilton, Royal Garrison Artillery, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches

British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. C. N. M. Hamilton.) nearly extremely fine (2) £80-£100

Charles Norman Maclean Hamilton was born in India on 19 October 1885 and lived at ‘Sherwood’, Ravensbourne Avenue, Shortlands, Kent. Posted to France with No. 70 Siege Battery 24 March 1916, his unit was initially equipped with four 8-inch howitzers improvised from the cut-down and bored out barrels of 6-inch coast defence guns. It joined the Northern Heavy Artillery Group, part of X Corps, Fourth Army, in readiness for the Battle of the Somme. Twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 18 May 1917 and 23 December 1918), Hamilton served as Adjutant to 40th H.A.G. and was released from service on 17 July 1919. He is later recorded in 1939 as a Golf Club Secretary living at Godstone; he died at Limpsfield, Surrey, on 7 July 1957.

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