Angus Hamilton, who served as a radar technician in Southeast Asia during the Second World War and returned home to a successful career in the civil service and academia, has died in Fredericton at the age of 100.
Born in Listowel, Ont., on April 18, 1922, Hamilton grew up on a farm, with the Great Depression shaping his early years
In an interview in November when he attended a Remembrance Day ceremony in Fredericton, Hamilton said he had wanted to be a pilot, "like every boy, but my eyesight was not good enough." Instead he became a radar technician with the Royal Canadian Air Force, serving on night fighter squadrons in Northern Ireland and India until the end of the war.
His daughter Anne Hamilton said that like most children, she didn't pay much attention to her dad's work or his war experience when she was growing up. "The war was in Britain ... on the continent, and I could not conceive ... everybody up and down the block knew about Europe," she said. "It was in the news. Nobody in the news talked about India. And nobody talked about Canadians in Southeast Asia."
"It was not just because he had lost a friend, but it was because he knew how tenuous his friend’s hold was on life and sanity .... Dad was angry that his friend had been put into this situation." After returning home from the war, Hamilton moved to Ottawa for a career of surveying and mapping positions in what is now the Department of Natural Resources. He eventually moved to Fredericton to become chairman of the department of surveying engineering at the University of New Brunswick.
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