Name
Hubert Ian Wetherall Hamilton (CB, CVO, DSO)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/10/1914
54
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Major General
General Staff
3rd Division (Commanding)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Companion of the Order of the Bath, Mentioned in Despatches,Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (posthumous), Commander The Royal Victorian Order, Distinguished Service Order
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHERITON (ST. MARTIN) CHURCHYARD
1284.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 27 Jun 1861 in Plymouth, Devon son of Lt. Gen. Henry Meade Hamilton C.B. and Henrietta Mary Borrowes Hamilton. Educated at the United Services College 1875-78. Served in Burma, Egypt and in the South African War 1899-1902 and was Military Secretary to General Lord Kitchener 1900-05. Lieutenant Colonel and A.D.C to the King in 1902.
Wartime Service
Appointed General commanding 3rd Division at the outbreak of war and was killed by artillery fire during the race to the sea while surveying the front line. He was buried in France, but was later exhumed and returned to England. He was the first Divisional Commander to be killed in action in WW1.
Additional Information
United Services College, Westward Ho, Devon amalgamated with Imperial Service College in Windsor in 1912 and then moved to Haileybury College, Hertford Heath in 1942.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
