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|enlisted = 10 January 1916 <ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29897/supplement/449 George Froude Hamlett] Supplement to the London Gazette. 10 January, 1917. p.449. Accessed 27 June, 2020.</ref>
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|biography = George Froude Hamlett was commissioned ([[Gazetted]]) on 10 January 1916 into the [[Border Regiment]] as a [[2nd Lieutenant]]. Prior to this he was [[Private]] 7671 in the Officer Training Corps.<ref>[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D2757600 George Froude Hamlett Medal Card] National Archives. Reference: WO 372/8/231967. Accessed 27 June, 2020.</ref> His initial posting was with the [[3rd Battalion]]. In January 1917 he joined A Company of [[1st Border Regiment]]: His Company Commanding Officer, [[Adam Fulton|Captain Adam Fulton]], states: "We spent the last night together before proceeding, as reinforcements, to join the 1st Battalion, The Border Regiment on the French Front. We were both posted to "A" company, then under Captain Bunting, and we were together there until he met his death, about eight months later. It happened when I had been in command of the company about a month. We had taken up position in the dark for an attack in the morning when Hamlett was hit in a burst of heavy shell fire by the Germans. When I was informed I went to investigate and found him dead from [[shrapnel]] wound in the head.<ref>A slight variation in events compared to the letter that Fulton sent to Hamlett’s parents.</ref> A few minutes later I was also hit by shrapnel and had to be carried off."<ref>[[Reminiscences and Experiences of Adam Fulton in the Great War (Part Two)]].</ref>
An unknown newspaper carried the following article:<br>{{x-larger|Second Lieutenant G.F. HAMLETT}}<br>{{larger|One of Four Soldier Brothers.}}<br>
Mr. and Mrs. F.G. Hamlett, of Summer Hill, Winsford, have received news of the death in action of Second-Lieutenant George Froude Hamlett, of the Border Regiment. The message, which was a telegram from the War Office, read as follows: - "Deeply regret to inform you Second-Lieutenant G.F. Hamlett, Border Regiment, previously reported wounded, is now reported to have been killed in action, August 13th. The Army Council express their sympathy."
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