Archibald Lindsay Hamilton
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant
Date of Death: 10/06/1917
Age: 27
Regiment/Service: Durham Light Infantry (13th Bn.)
Cemetery: Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm)
Additional information: Husband of Mrs. C Hamilton of 48 Leven Street, Pollokshields, Glasgow.
Rutherglen Lore information: Husband of Cissy Buchanan, Wardlaw House, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Widow Marion Margaret Hannah Hamilton.
Glasgow University information: Archibald Lindsay Hamilton was born on the 7th August 1889 in Battlefield Crescent, Cathcart, Renfrewshire. He was the only son, one of five children, of Archibald Hamilton (1845-1920) and Margaret Brown Muir Hamilton (nee Sinclair) (1854-1895), who had married in 1884 at 12 Berlin Terrace, Pollokshields, Glasgow.
Archibald was a member of the University of Glasgow Officers’ Training Corps, serving as a Cadet in 1916. He married Marion M H (Cissie) Buchanan in 1916 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire.
During the war Archibald served as 2nd Lieutenant with the 13th Bn. Highland Light Infantry. 2nd Lieutenant Archibald Lindsay Hamilton was killed in action on the 10th June 1917 at Zillebeke, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Archibald was 27. He was buried at the Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm), near Ieper, Belgium.
1901 census information:
Address: 16 Cathkin Road, Cathcart.
Father: Archibald (54) grain merchant, born about 1845 in Glasgow.
Sister: Jeanie F (15) born about 1886 in Glasgow.
Sister: Margaret R (13) born about 1888 in Glasgow.
Self: Archibald L (11) born about 1890 in Glasgow
Sister: Elizabeth G S (9) born about 1892 in Glasgow.
Sister: Alison R F (7) born about 1894 in Glasgow.
Newspaper transcript – Mr and Mrs Hamilton, The Ingle, Burnside, Rutherglen, have received official intimation of the death of their only son, Lieutenant A.L. Hamilton, who was shot by a sniper while holding an advanced post during a recent attack. He was educated at the Glasgow High School, and before joining the Army was engaged in his father’s firm, Messrs Archibald Hamilton and Sons, grain merchants, Robertson Street, Glasgow.
Also commemorated on the memorial at Cathkin Braes Golf Club, Rutherglen, Glasgow High School and Glasgow University.