Private
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) | 105918 | 2nd Battalion |
Leicestershire Regiment | 43669 | 11th Battalion |
Photos courtesy Gavid & Liz Houlden
Biography
George was born in about 1899. His collar insignia on the photograph show him as a Pioneer when he was serving with the Leicestershire Regiment. His family remember him suffering from trench foot and being wounded by shrapnel. As a result he was in hospital during the latter part of the war and came home during 1919. He died aged eighty in 1979.
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Hopkinson George Job – Possibly enlisted December 1915. Served with 2nd Battalion SF first overseas and then with the Leicestershire Regiment 11th (Service) Battalion (Midland Pioneers) – 6th Division as Pioneer Battalion. A number of men around his service number ended up being moved to Leicesters.
Medal Roll Index
He was awarded the British War and Victory Medals.
George Hopkinson's brother Thomas Hopkinson is also on the Roll of Honour.
George's wife Florence M Hughes was sister to James Hughes and George Andrew Hughes.
1901: Parkhead, Crich
Forename | Surname | Relationship | Age | Occupation | Where born |
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Job | Hopkinson | Head | 32 | Limestone quarryman | S. Wingfield |
Elizabeth | Hopkinson | wife | 30 | Wessington | |
Thomas Humphrey | Hopkinson | son | 5 | Oakerthorpe | |
George Job | Hopkinson | son | 1 | Crich |
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1911: Parkhead, Crich
Forename | Surname | Relationship | Age | Occupation | Where born |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Job | Hopkinson | Head | 42 | Jobbing gardener | S. Wingfield |
Elizabeth | Hopkinson | wife | 40 | Wessington | |
Thomas Humphrey | Hopkinson | son | 15 | Errand boy grocers | S. Wingfield |
George Job | Hopkinson | son | 11 | School | Crich |
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1939 Register: Moor End, Shardlow
George Hopkinson b.1 October 1899; railway messenger
Florence Hopkinson b.13 May 1898
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