Surgeon E.T.E. Hamilton - by: Rory

The latest recruit to the "assemblage" arrived this morning. Ernest Thomas Edward Hamilton was a remarkable man in many ways. According to his obituary:

During the Boer War he was medical officer on one of the hospital ships and in various hospitals ashore. After serving with the rank of Major in the field during the recent rebellion, Dr. Hamilton became principal medical Officer at Swakopmund, the chief post of German South West Africa, now in British occupation, where he developed an intestinal complaint, and, being much run down from pressure of work, he was ordered to Johannesburg to recuperate. There he became subject to attacks of mental depression, and it is supposed that in one of these fits he terminated his life, as he was found with a fatal bullet wound in his head.

More when I get down to writing his story.





Regards

Rory