Talk:Gavin Hamilton (British Army officer)

Years of service
The Years of service box only gives 81-82, which is presumably from assuming command of the Troop to his death. From the citation that most of this article is cut and pasted from it's clear that his parent unit was the Green Howards but when did he enter the Academy?

ALR (talk) 09:32, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Paraent Unit Badge
The XIX capbadge clutters the infobox and has been removed. Hamilton's service with them is pointed out within the text. The only reason people will spare the time to read the article is because of his service and actions with the SAS. Give valid reasons for its return or it will continue to be deleted (Archangel1 (talk) 23:20, 26 June 2008 (UTC))

Badges
I've removed the unit badges as 'people' keep putting back on. The only reason Hamilton has a page is because he was an SAS officer. If you add the units of some soldiers on here you would have a list as long as your arm as many people of 'note' have changed their allegiances on many occasions. So, to avoid confornations with people that add the parent unit badge (proberly to boost their own ego), it should remain blank (Archangel1 (talk) 11:55, 26 November 2008 (UTC)).


 * I would say he has a page because he was one of the few MCs in the Falklands war - not because of his SAS status.Wholemanne (talk) 12:33, 26 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Really. So by that rationale, there would scores of page for people who have received an award of note. There were many awards garnered during the war but those guys havent got pages (Archangel1 (talk) 12:39, 26 November 2008 (UTC)).

Plagiarism
The section titled "Observation on Stanly" ends with a curious quotation mark. Performing a web search on that section's text shows that it matches that of another site which in turn attributes it to "Tony Geraghty's book Who Dares Wins and the book Falklands Armoury, edited by Mark Dartford." tildetildetildetilde —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.164.64.131 (talk) 08:33, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Well this is strange. The link doesn't work, however, repeating the google search only turns up mirrors of this page.  If there is plagiarism it would appear to be wikipedia that is the victim here, the copies I found all post dated this article. WCM email 18:14, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 15:51, 29 April 2016 (UTC)