After a brief 1922 command of HMS Violent, Dalrymple-Hamilton reached commander in December 1924, but his record then contains periods without a named ship. Half pay and convalescence appear among intervals that also seem to include schools, staff work, and royal-family duties, although the exact sequence remains difficult to reconstruct from the handwritten record. Dalrymple-Hamilton married in 1918, and the couple had one son and two daughters. Their son became a Royal Navy officer and served in King George V's gunnery organization during the final action against Bismarck, placing father and son in the two British battleships. A sequence of seagoing appointments alone therefore hides much of an officer's professional and family history.
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What the gaps in Dalrymple-Hamilton's interwar record contain
Half pay, convalescence, and less clearly recorded shore duties interrupt Dalrymple-Hamilton's command list; his son later served aboard King George V against Bismarck.