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Name: HAMILTON, Walter Gustavus

Birth Date: 1867 Gresford, Denbighshire

Death Date: 11.8.1893 murdered in Gobwen, Jubaland

Nationality: British

First Date: 1892

Last Date: 1893

Profession: Served with IBEA Co.

Area: Taveta, Kismayu

Book Reference: Gillett, Moyse, EAHB 1905, North, Kiewiet, IBEA, EAHB 1906, EAHB 1904, Intelligencer

General Information:

Moyse - Feb 1893 - J. Ross Todd - Acting Superintendent at Kismayu wounded in the head at a baraza so more troops sent under W.G. Hamilton, superintendent in charge of askaris. Hamilton was a stern martinet who had acquired a taste for German military methods. He had previously been at Taveta, where the Company had had cause to complain of his handling of the natives. ...…
11th Aug. - 'Viriboto' mutinied, captured Fort at Turki Hill, murdered Hamilton and disappeared into the bush.
North - Acting Supt. Taveta 12/6/1892; Ordered to withdraw from Taveta 25/10/1892; returning with caravan from Uganda 4/1/1893 four days march from Mombasa; in charge of Askaris at Kismayu; d. 11/8/1893, killed by Somalis at Turki Hill, 8 miles north of Kismayu on right bank of Juba
Kiewiet - 1893 - Kismayu - Trouble - Ross Todd, the Acting Superintendent reported that he and his assistant Farrant were "little better than prisoners in the Company's house". …….. Scuffle and Todd stabbed in the head and he called for punitive action. ….. Mr Hamilton was sent to Turki Hill, 8 miles up the river from Kismayu, to build a fort. 
North - reprimanded for his insubordination attitude March 1893
Intelligencer - Journal of Rev H.K. Binns - 1st November 1890 - "Sir Francis [Winton] wrote to me saying that one of their men, Hamilton, at Taveta, had gone mad, and as Dr Baxter was attending him asked if he might attend him to the coast, he sending up another European and caravan, and undertaking to send Dr Baxter back.
EAHB 1905 - IBEA Co. General Africa Staff - appointed 21st May 1891 - killed, 11th August 1893
Ancestry Passenger list 4 July 1891 London-Mombasa W.G. Hamilton b. 1862, gentleman

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