Biography:
George Edward Archibald Augustus Fitzgeorge Hamilton was born 30 December 1898, the son and heir of Sir Charles Edward Archibald Watkin Hamilton, 5th Baronet, of Iping House, Midhurst. His mother was Olga, daughter of Rear Admiral Sir Adolphus Augustus Frederick Fitzgeorge, KCVO, a great-grandson of HRH The Duke of Cambridge, 7th son of King George III.
He came to Winchester College from Mr Hawtrey's school at Westgate in September 1912 and was in H House, Bramston's. George had always intended to enter the Army and, after leaving Winchester in December 1915, he passed into Sandhurst early in 1916, and afterwards obtained a commission from the Grenadier Guards.
George went out to the front in late 1917 and was killed by an aeroplane at Warlincourt, near Arras, on 18 May 1918.
His obituary in The Wykehamist stated: 'At the front, as at School and elsewhere, his humour and good nature won him great popularity among his men and companions: and his natural gifts – for he had wide tastes and had read widely – should have made him a capable and useful officer.
Hamilton lies in grave XII.B.6 of the Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty