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Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14156, 19 April 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

A very fine record in connection wir.b •'the war' ha>s been put up by the ms\!ft ■side of the family of i-ho iaU- Mr F. Hanlill-on, of Nolson.' Of nine sons, "six are single. Five of these are on active service, and the sixth lias enlisted. j Captain Archibald Hamilton, of an Indian rcgnnr-nt, went to Africa at lh<; outbreak of the w-Tr, and has seen some severe- fighting. Tn one engagement his regiment was badly cut up, but he was fortunni-o enough to. get through uuscatchrd. "nrgeon-C'aptain Alr.n llamilton is now with' the British Army "somewhere in Franco.7' rlV> was for a time on the medical staff of the DiiHioks of Sutherb.nd'.s hospital a'; Dunkirk, nnd afterwards enlisted in the- U.A.M.C. Trooper Hugh Hamilton Xt with tuc Main Xo\v Zoalautl Kxpoclitionary Force, and Avar, wounded at Gfillipoii. T)O7olopiii^ lockjaw, \w whs mvalidod to Englantl, where- he ipatlo a complete recovery. Ho then obtained a tranßi^r 'to the 3?ornl Flying Corps, in which he was sivrcwsfnT in obtiiinin.-i a oommission. Serpcfint C. A. Wnmißnn is AVitii t!i'o New Zealand Arbiilerv. and .-Pnvnte "Reg. Hamilton i^ in fanip with the. New Zealand Medical Qoy.m. Mr 11. A. Hamilton enlisted recently. Trooper IT. Brewer, of Collinpv.-ood, 'vho lonvps with tho Eleventh Hornforcements. was presented with a shaying outfit 'by a ruim'ifsr of frior.ds m Nelson.