Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Captain D. M. Hamilton, C.M.G., Royal Navy, Naval Transport Officer at Boulogne in 1914

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Lieut. D. M. Hamilton, R.N, H.M.S. Terpsichore.); 1914 Star (Capt. D. M. Hamilton, R.N. Transport Staff.) good very fine and rare (2) £400-£500

173 1914 Stars (all without clasp) issued to Royal Naval Transport Staff, including one Rear-Admiral and eight Captains R.N.

C.M.G. London Gazette 4 June 1917: ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered with Military operations in France.’ Invested by H.M. The King at Buckingham Palace, 30 June 1917.

M.I.D. (Sir John French, France) London Gazette 1 January 1916; (Sir D Haig, France) London Gazette 15 June 1916; (Sir D Haig, France) London Gazette 4 January 1917; (Sir D Haig, France) London Gazette 15 May 1917; (Sir D Haig, France) London Gazette 5 July 1919.

Officer of the Legion of Honour London Gazette 25 January 1918.

Turkish Order of Liakat, granted private permission to wear 12 December 1908.

David Monteith Hamilton was born at Nowshera, India, on 12 October 1874, son of Colonel G. M. Hamilton. He entered the Royal Navy aboard the training ship Britannia as a Midshipman on 15 March 1891, becoming Sub-Lieutenant in September 1894, and Lieutenant in April 1897. He joined H.M.S. Terpsichore at the Cape on 7 February 1901, but was ordered home on 18 March 1901, to be appointed Flag-Lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Bridge, Commander in Chief China, a position he held until March 1904. He received the appreciation of the Admiralty for his work on signalling in 1905, and again in 1906 for his prompt action following an explosion in H.M.S. Fox. He was promoted to Commander in December 1907, and to Captain on his retirement, 20 February 1912.

Recalled on 5 August 1914, he was appointed to Boulogne for Special Transport Duties, appointed Deputy Naval Transport Officer and British Senior Naval Officer at Boulogne (1914 Star); Deputy Naval Transport Officer Dunkirk, 27 August 1917, and back to Boulogne 26 March 1919, reverting to the Retired List on 8 April 1920.

Captain Hamilton, who was resident in Biaritz, died in London on 18 May 1942. Sold with copied record of service and other research.