In Memory Of
HAMILTON, PAUL GEORGE
Service Details
Age:
23
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
176162
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit:
17 Field Amb.
Regiment:
South African Medical Corps
Date of Death:
1943-12-08
Cause of Death:
Died whilst a POW, whilst being loaded onto railway wagons to be transported to Germany, the rail yards at Aquila were bombed by USAF B-25 bombers. About 200 POWs were killed, all who were trapped in locked cattle cars.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
III. E. 20.
Cemetery:
ANCONA WAR CEMETERY
Country:
Italy
Additional Information
Son of Frank I. and Marguerite K. Hamilton, of La Rochelle, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Born Kroonstad, Orange Free State. A clerk
