Neil Alexander Buchanan Baillie-Hamilton

Ruadhan Scrivener-Anderson
Saturday 13 May 2023

Date of Birth: 25th November 1880

Place of Birth: Scotland

Education: Glenalmond College

Training: Royal Military College (Sandhurst)

Commission Type: Regular

Neil Baillie-Hamilton commissioned into The Black Watch in 1900 and served during the Second Anglo-Boer War. In 1913 he was an instructor at the Royal Military Academy, and was appointed adjutant of the RMC the following year before re-joining the regiment in France. He retired to South Africa and joined the Union Defence Force at the outbreak of the Second World War. He committed suicide while commanding a transit camp in South Africa on 7th August 1943.


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