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Born in 1853; educated at Cheam, Wellington College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into 12th (East Suffolk) Foot, 1872; served in Ireland, 1872-1873; transferred to 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regt, 1873; regimental service in India, Afghanistan and South Africa, 1873-1881, including active service in Second Afghan War, 1878-1880, and First Boer War, 1881(severely wounded, Battle of Majuba Hill, 1881); aide-de-camp to Gen Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Bt, as Commander-in-Chief Madras, 1882-1884, and Commander-in-Chief East Indies, 1886-1890 (including Burma Expedition, 1886-1887); served with 1 Bn Gordon Highlanders during First Sudan Expedition, 1884-1885; Assistant Adjutant General for Musketry in Bengal, India, 1890-1893; Military Secretary to Gen Sir George Stuart White, Commander-in-Chief East Indies, 1893-1895; Assistant Adjutant General and Assistant Quarter Master General, Chitral Relief Force, North West Frontier, 1895; Deputy Quarter Master General in India, 1895-1898; Officer commanding 1 Bde and 3 Bde, Tirah Expeditionary Force, North West Frontier, 1897-1898; Commandant, School of Musketry, Hythe, Kent, 1898-1899; Assistant Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Natal Field Force, 1899, and Maj Gen commanding 7 Bde, Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1900; Lt Gen, commanding Mounted Infantry Div, Second Boer War, South Africa, 1900-1901; Military Secretary, War Office, 1901; Chief of Staff to Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall,Commander-in-Chief, South Africa, Second Boer War, 1901-1902; Military Secretary, War Office, 1902-1903; Quarter Master General to the Forces, 1903-1904; Military representative of India attached to 1 Japanese Army, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905; General Officer Commanding Southern Command, 1905-1909; Adjutant General to the Forces, 1909-1910; General Officer Commanding Mediterranean Command, and Inspector General of Overseas Forces, 1910-1914; Commander-in-Chief Central Force, Home Defence, 1914-1915, World War One; General Officer Commanding Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli, 1915, World War One; Lieutenant of the Tower of London, 1918-1920; retired from the Army, 1920; Colonel of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, 1904-1914; Colonel of the Gordon Highlanders, 1914-1939; Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, 1933-1936; President, 1922-1935, and Patron, 1935-1947, of the Metropolitan Area British Legion; President of the British Legion in Scotland, 1935-1947; President of the South African War Veterans' Association, 1932-1947; died 1947. Publications: A jaunt in a junk (Kegan Paul, Trench and Co, London, 1884); The fighting of the future (Kegan Paul, Trench and Co, London, 1885); Icarus (Vizetelly's one volume novels, Vol 18, 1886); The ballad of Hádji and other poems (Kegan Paul, Trench and Co, London, 1887); A staff officer's scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese War (Edward Arnold, London, 2 vols, 1905 & 1907; 2nd ed 1912); A military and medical view of the temperance question (Malta Chronicle, Valetta, 1910); Compulsory service, a study of the question in the light of experience (John Murray, London, 1910, 1911); National life and national training Birmingham and Midlands Institute Presidential Address (Birmingham, 1912); Sir Ian Hamilton's despatches from the Dardanelles (George Newnes, London, 1916, 1917); The millennium? (Edward Arnold, London, 1919); Gallipoli diary (Edward Arnold, London, 1920, reprinted 1930); The soul and body of an army (Edward Arnold and Co, London, 1921, reprinted 1991); The friends of England, lectures to members of the British Legion (G Allen Unwin, London, 1923); Now and then (Methuen and Co, London, 1926); Belted Galloways (Vinton and Co, London, 1930); Anti-commando, an account of Sir Aubrey Woolls-Sampson's part in the South African War, 1899-1902 by Victor Sampson and Hamilton (Faber and Faber, London, 1931); When I was a boy (Faber and Faber, London, 1939); Jean, a memoir on Jean, Lady Hamilton (privately printed, London, 1941; Faber and Faber, London, 1942); Listening for the drums (Faber and Faber, London, 1944); The commander edited by Maj Anthony Farrar-Hockley (Hollis and Carter, London, 1957). Hamilton also contributed prefaces and introductions to the following publications:- War songs by Christopher Reynolds Stone (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1908); The Lancashire fighting territorials in Gallipoli by George Bigwood (George Newnes, London, 1916); The Anzac book, written and illustrated in Gallipoli by the men of Anzac edited by Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean (Cassell, London, 1916); The memoirs of Sir Andrew Melvill edited by Torick Ameer-Ali (John Lane: London, New York, 1918); The New Zealanders at Gallipoli by Maj Fred Waite (Whitcombe and Tombs, Auckland, 1919); Noel Ross and his work by Mr and Mrs Malcom Ross (Edward Arnold, London, 1919); The 42nd (East Lancashire) Division by Frederick P Gibbon (Country Life, London, 1920); The making of Wellington College by Joseph L Bevir (Edward Arnold, London, 1920); Notes on the Dardanelles campaign of 1915 by Maj Sherman Miles (Reprinted from The Coast Artillery Journal, Dec 1924); Gallipoli today by T J Pemberton (Ernest Benn, London, 1926); Memories of four fronts by Lt Gen Sir William Raine Marshall (Ernest Benn, London, 1925); History of the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) (Gale and Polden, Aldershot, 1928); Searchlights, sonnets and other verse by Eva Mungall (Alexander Gardner, Paisley, 1929); Thoughts of a soldier by Gen Hans von Seeckt (Ernest Benn, London, 1930); The Essex Regiment, 1st Battalion, 1741-1919 by John William Burrows (J H Burrows, Southend-on-Sea, 1931); The cross of Carl by Walter Owen (Grant Richards, London, 1931); The tragedy of the Dardanelles by Edward Delage (John Lane, London, 1932); The Scottish national war memorial by Francis C Inglis (Grant and Murray, Edinburgh, 1932); Gallipoli revisited by William Edward Stanton Hope (Stanton Hope, London, 1934); High command in the world war by CaptWilliam Dilworth Puleston, US Navy, (Scribners, London, 1934); High Treason by Col Victor K Kaledin (Hurst and Blackett, London, 1936); Letters from Helles by Col Sir Henry Clayton Darlington (Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1936); The Liao-Yang campaign by Lt Col Alfred Higgins Burne (William Clowes, London, 1936).