Private Thomas Hamilton

Private Thomas Hamilton, 1st/7th ( Territorial ) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He was killed in Belgium on 29th July 1916  and is buried in St Quentin Cabaret  Military Cemetery, Flanders, Belgium. He had been attached to the Brigade Wiring Party. The photograph shows the impressive Memorial raised to the 50th ( Northumbrian ) Division of which the Battalion was part until February 1918. It was erected near the village of Wieltje in the Ypres Salient where the Division had fought its first action on 26th April 1915 only days after landing on the Continent.