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About Ian Hamilton
General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton was a British Army officer who had an extensive military career in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Hamilton was twice recommended for the Victoria Cross, but on the first occasion was considered too young, and on the second too senior. He was wounded in action at the Battle of Majuba during the First Boer War, which rendered his left hand permanently injured. Near the end of his career, he commanded the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War. After the campaign stalled, he was recalled in October 1915, effectively ending his military career.
Everything about Ian Hamilton →- Occupation
- military personnel, army officer, military officer
- Position held
- Rector of the University of Edinburgh, Lieutenant of the Tower of London
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- January 16, 1853
- Died
- October 12, 1947