Colonel Thomas William O'HORA-HAMILTON CMG
Royal Army Medical Corps

Date of birth: 24th May 1860
Date of death: 22nd April 1918

Died aged 57
Buried at place unknown
He was born at Aldershot on the 24th of May 1860 the son of Colonel Thomas O’Hara of Malden in Surrey. He was educated at the King’s School Canterbury from September 1874 to November 1876 going on to Trinity College Dublin where he achieved a BA in 1880 and a MB and Bch in 1881.

He was commissioned as a Surgeon Lieutenant in the Army Medical Service on the 3rd of February 1883 and was promoted to Surgeon Major on the 3rd of February 1895.

He was married to Hannah De Gallye (nee Lamotte) at Wimbledon on the 17th of December 1891; they had a son, Thomas, born on the 22nd of July 1896.

He served in South Africa from the 27th of October 1899 to the 17th of November 1902 being present at the advance on Kimberly including actions at the Modder River. Also at Magersfontein, the Orange Free State including the actions of Paardeberg and Witebergen and in operations in the Cape Colony. He received the Queen’s Medal and three clasps and the King’s Medal with two clasps as well as the CMG which he was awarded in 1901. He was mentioned in despatches which appeared in the London Gazette of the 16th of November 1901. On the 27th September 1901 he was appointed as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in recognition of his service in South Africa. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on the 3rd of February 1903 and on the 24th of February 1903 he arrived at Malta from South Africa. He returned to England on sick leave on the 19th of September 1903. He left Malta for a posting at Dublin in October 1904 and retired from the army on the 4th of November 1911.

Following the outbreak of war he was mobilised on the 5th of August 1914 and served with the Royal Army Medical Corps as Officer Commanding Warley Military Hospital and was mentioned in despatches in September 1917. He was made a Brevet Colonel in the New Year’s Honours List of the 1st of January 1918, shortly after he had retired for the second time.

He died at Colchester.

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