Second Boer War Victoria Cross Recipient. He received the award from British King Edward VII on December 17, 1901 at St. James's Palace in Westminster, Greater London, England for his actions as a sergeant in the 2nd Battalion, The King's (Liverpool) Regiment, British Army on August 21, 1900 at Van Wyk's Vlei, South Africa during the Second Boer War. Born in Richmond, Greater London, England, he enlisted in the 1st Battalion, The King's Liverpool Regiment in March 1889 and was promoted to the rank of corporal two years later. From 1891 until 1897 he served in the West Indies and Nova Scotia and was then sent to South Africa. He served in the Second Boer War with the 1st Mounter Infantry Company of the 2nd Battalion and saw action at the Siege of Ladysmith and the advance through Natal and Eastern Transvaal, and then at Van Wyk's Vlei where he won the Victoria Cross for gallantry. He remained in the British Army and retired following World War I, and returned to Richmond and secured a job as a commissionaire with a firm of London Solicitors. He died as a result of an accident at the rail station in Twickenham, Greater London, England at the age of 51. His Victoria Cross citation reads: "On the 21st August, 1900, at Van Wyk's Vlei, Sergeant Hampton, who was in command of a small party of Mounted Infantry, held an important position for some time against heavy odds, and when compelled to retire saw all his men into safety, and then, although he had himself been wounded in the head, supported Lance-Corporal Walsh, who was unable to walk, until the latter was again hit and apparently killed, Sergeant Hampton himself being again wounded a short time after." In addition to the Victoria Cross, he received the Queen's South Africa Medal (with Relief of Ladysmith, Natal, and Transvaal clasps). His Victoria Cross is on display at the Museum of the King's Regiment in Liverpool, Merseyside, England.