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VC646 John Patrick Hamilton
BORN 24 January 1896
DIED 27 February 1961 AGE 65
VC Won 9 August 1915 AGE 19
Place VC Won Lone Pine, Anzac sector, Gallipoli, Turkey
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name John Patrick Hamilton No. 943
VC Issue No. 646 Awards VC
Regiment Regiment 3rd (New South Wales) Battalion, AIF
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Private
Place Of Birth Orange, near Penshurst, New South Wales, Australia
Place Of Death Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Buried/Location Ashes Woronora Cemetery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Church of England Section 8, Grave 518
Gazetted 15 October 1915
VC Presented 4 December 1915 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Headstone, Woronora Cemetery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Display, Hall of Valour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Named On Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, Australia
Hamilton Row, Canberra, ACT, Australia
By The Way…
Before the war he was a butcher
VC Held By
Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
