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Able Seaman Richard Hamilton

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Military service

Age: 28
Rank: Able Seaman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: M.V. Scottish Prince (London, England) (166460)
Birth: October 21, 1912 Eel River, New Brunswick
Death: May 31, 1941 Alexandria, Egypt

Burial/memorial information

ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) BRITISH PROTESTANT CEMETERY
Grave reference: Grave 984.
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His real name is Allan Ritchie Patterson Hamilton and served as Richard Hamilton.

Son of James Hastwell Hamilton and Alice Catherine Beckingham of Eel River Crossing, Restigouche, New Brunswick.

On 31 May 1941, the Scottish Prince was undergoing repairs in the port of Alexandria, Egypt, when two sailors collapsed in the hold due to gas emanating from damaged tanks. Hamilton and Second Lieutenant Finlayson entered the hold attached to the end of a cable in an attempt to save their two comrades. The fumes killed the two rescuers, for which they were posthumously decorated.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 148 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) BRITISH PROTESTANT CEMETERY Egypt

Chatby is a district on the eastern side of the city of Alexandria, between the main dual carriageway to Aboukir, known as Al Horaya, and the sea. This cemetery is located centrally within the main Alexandria cemetery complex, which is bordered by Al Horaya on the south and the electric tramway, which is parallel with Sharia Champollion on the North. Visitors can reach the entrance to the cemetery along the road Sharia Anubis, which lies centrally north/south through the cemetery area.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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