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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Hamilton Charles Denis
|Army number=90293
|Rank=2/Lt
|Decorations=D.S.O. 5/4/1945, T.D. 1975
|Date of birth=6/12/1918
|Age=69 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Durham Light Infantry - Commissioned 2/Lt 8th Bn DLI 21/6/1939. Embodied 24/8/1939. Posted 11th Bn DLI 1/9/39. Served B.E.F.- Weekly Return of Officers as at 5/5/1940 shows him as Rear Party Officer in the UK. Served Iceland.  Served Normandy. Commanding Battalion on disbandment 26/8/1944. Transferred to the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, Posted 7th Bn DoWR as second in command.  Commanded 7th Bn DoWR. Released 1946 as Hon Lt Col, TARO - Major 1/4/1948.
|Company/Battery=Bn HQ, C Company, D Company, Battalion HQ.
|Task or role=Signals Officer, Adjutant 4/7/1940,  Company Commander, 2 i/c of 11th Battalion 4/8/1942, C.O. of 10th Battalion 8/8/1944
|Joined Brigade=01-Sep-39
|Promotions=A/Captain 4/7/1940, W/S Lt and T/Captain 10/9/1940, W/S Captain and T/Major 20/9/1941, A/Lt-Col 8/8/1944, T/Lt-Col 5/4/1945.
|Died/Killed in action=Died 7/4/1988.  Death registered at Westminster, London.  Probate granted in London 20/9/1988.
|Home address=Son of Charles and Helene Hamilton.  Educated Middlesbrough High School and London University.  Married 1939 Olive, daughter of Thomas Hedley Wanless.  Lived at 78a Ashley Gardens, Thirleby Road, London SW1.
|Source table=11DLI
}}

Author of the autobiography "Editor in Chief" published 1989 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

For his Wikipedia entry see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Hamilton here]

For his Encyclopaedia Britannica Entry see [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/253396/Sir-Denis-Hamilton here]

For a National Portrait gallery image see [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw82639/William-Rees-Mogg-Baron-Rees-Mogg-Harold-Matthew-Evans-Sir-Charles-Denis-Hamilton?LinkID=mp69921&role=sit&rNo=0 here]

For a Sunday Times article and the link to Ian Fleming see [http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/article1038657.ece here]