FREDERICTON — 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…
“During the war none of us was allowed to say where we were or what we were doing, and, after the war no one cared,” he said in another of his books about the war years.
“We always knew he had been in India during the war,” she said in an interview Friday. “We knew he’d been in India because we had curry when we were growing up. We were in a very white bread neighbourhood, and we were the only ones on the street who ever had curry.” While he was mostly shielded from combat, Hamilton saw fire once in Myanmar, then called Burma, Elizabeth Hamilton said. His children learned he was not a fan of the jungle and suffered from malaria, jaundice and stomach problems during his years in India.“I sort of never understood it, because I didn’t think he had been in the real war,” Elizabeth Hamilton said. “I didn’t find out about it until he started talking about his best friend.
But it was the “very clear sense of service” and obligation that led him and his friends to sign up for the war, she added. John McLaughlin, who went on to become UNB president, was hired by Hamilton in 1972 as a lecturer in the surveying engineering department.
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