John Hopkinson (1893-1915)

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John Hopkinson

Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922

The following extract is from Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922 (2014) by J. Margaret Stansfield:

HOPKINSON, JOHN. Private. No 19718. 9th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment. Born Huddersfield 12.7.1893. Son of Mary Hopkinson, 13 Castlegate, Huddersfield. Educated St. Patrick's Roman Catholic School. Employed at the Central Liberal Club for five years as a billiard marker and later as hall assistant. Married. Lived at 6a Bradford Road, Huddersfield (after his enlistment his wife, Amy, lived with her parents at 13 Garden Street, Masborough, Rotherham). Enlisted at the outbreak of the war and went out to the Dardenelles. Died of wounds, 10.11.1915, aged 22 years. Buried HILL 10 CEMETERY, SUVLA. Grave location:- Plot 1, Row F, Grave 2.
A letter was received from Sergeant A. Maclean of the 35th Field Ambulance R.A.M.C., 11th Division, British Expeditionary Mediterrean Force, who wrote from Suvla Bay, saying that, 'Private Hopkinson was carried into the hospital on the morning of the 10th November and although everything was done for him it was impossible to save his life. He was buried the same afternoon.'

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