Bruce Hamilton (British Army officer)

Sir Bruce Meade Hamilton
File:Brucehamilton.jpg Gen. Sir Bruce Hamilton
Born	(1857-12-07)7 December 1857
Died
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	General
Commands held	2nd Division Scottish Command
Battles/wars	Second Boer War World War I
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order

General Sir Bruce Meade Hamilton GCB KCVO (7 December 1857 – 6 July 1936) was a British Army General during World War I.

Military career

Hamilton was commissioned into the East Yorkshire Regiment in 1877. He served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1880 and the South African War in 1881. He became Commander of the Niger Coast Protectorate Force in Benin in 1897 and took part in the Second Boer War in 1900. He played a key role in the capture of Naauwpoort. During the latter part of the war he was in command of the military columns operating in Eastern Transvaal, and following the announcement of peace on 31 May 1902, he supervised the surrender of arms in that area.

He became General Officer Commanding 2nd Division within 1st Army Corps in 1904 and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Scottish Command in 1909. He led the Army Command Home Defence during World War I.

References

Military offices
Preceded by Charles Douglas	General Officer Commanding the 2nd Division 1904–1907	Succeeded by Theodore Stephenson
Preceded by Sir Edward Leach	GOC-in-C Scottish Command 1909–1913	Succeeded by Sir James Wolfe-Murray