Orange's Victoria Cross winner John Patrick Hamilton immortalised with a bronze statue | Photos

Declan Rurenga
Updated April 21 2017 - 5:25pm, first published 5:06pm
STANDING TALL: Orange mayor John Davis with Private John Patrick Hamilton's great-grandchildren Matthew and Jo Hamilton (right) and their mother Cheryl Hamilton at the statue's unveiling. Photo: DECLAN RURENGA 0421drbronze29
STANDING TALL: Orange mayor John Davis with Private John Patrick Hamilton's great-grandchildren Matthew and Jo Hamilton (right) and their mother Cheryl Hamilton at the statue's unveiling. Photo: DECLAN RURENGA 0421drbronze29

“There’s memorials and plaques around the country but finally there’s one where he was born.”

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Declan Rurenga

Declan Rurenga was the editor of Griffith's Area News and Leeton's Irrigator until September 2023. Before landing at the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, he reported news in Junee, Wagga Wagga, Orange and Cootamundra.

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