Florence May HAMILTON nee TAYLOR Died of wounds received during an enemy air raid in Malta on the 13th July 1942. At the time she was serving with the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. Wife of then Lieutenant Colonel William Ralston Duncan Hamilton, Royal Army Medical Corps. Her husband remarried in 1956 to Joyce C Clark at Bromsgrove.
Wills and Admin. Ancestry. Florence May Hamilton of 6 Married Officers Quarters, Imtarfa, Malta . Probate Llandudno 10th November 1942 to Messre Holt and Company Trustees. Effects £715.6.8d. At rest in Plot 1 Row 4 Grave 4. Imtarfa Military Cemetery, Malta.
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Information on her husband.
Major-General W. R. D. Hamilton, lately consulting physician to the Army and medical adviser to the Army Pensions Office, died in the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, London, on 5 October 1969 at the age of 73.
William Ralston Duncan Hamilton was born on 17 October 1895 and received his medical education at Glasgow University, graduating M.B., Ch.B., with honours 'in 1918. He joined the R.A.M.C. immediately
thereafter and served until his retirement in 1955. He chose to specialize in medicine, and tours in Iraq, India, Malta, West Africa, and the Middle East gave him a wide experience in tropical medicine. His keen interest, inquiring alert mind, and retentive memory made him a first-class bedside clinician. In Egypt during 1948 to 1950 he had the opportunity of observing a large outbreak of typhoid fever, and his thesis on this subject gained an M.D. with commendation in 1951. He was appointed O.B.E. in 1940 and C.B. in 1954. He was appointed honorary physician to the late King in 1951. During the years 1951-5 as consulting physician to the Army his abilities were of outstanding value. He was ready at any time to see patients in consultation, and his forthright opinions, given from wisdom, knowledge, and practical experience, were invariably helpful. He showed great humanity and sympathy to the sick, as these qualities were in his nature, but stemmed also from his own personal tragedy. His first wife was killed at his side, and he was himself severely wounded, during an air raid on Malta in
1942. His wounds entailed many weary months in hospital and multiple operations.He was serious and conscientious in his work, but off duty on the golf course, in his home, or in his garden he was a bright and amusing companion. His hobby was motor engineering, and his knowledge of the mysteries of the internal combustion engine was professional.
After retiring from the Army he served for 14 years as medical adviser to the Army Pensions Office, and to his work there he brought the same qualities of experience, compassion, and wisdom so that his judgments were invariably honest and fair. He relinquished this post only a few days before developing what proved to be a fatal illness. He thus devoted the whole of his working life, a span of 51 years, to the problems of sick soldiers and their families.
Our sympathy is extended to his wife, previously a member of the Q.A.R.A.N.C., who brought so much happiness to his later years, and to his son, who is-a doctor .
