Driver 67909 Joseph HOPKINS
Royal Engineers,formerly 21512 Grenadier Guards (37th Division, Signals Company, Royal Engineers)
Killed in Action, Monday 25th March 1918, Belgium, Age 21
Home address:
3 Rochfort Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:
1896, Manchester, Lancashire
Parents:
Ellen Hopkins and Joseph Hopkins
3 Rochfort Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Single
Occupation:
Hawker Green Grocery
Enlisted:
Hyde, Cheshire
Remembered:
La Clytte Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, plot IV, row A grave 12.
Link to Hyde:
Lived in Hyde
Enlisted with the Cheshire Regiment in 1913 and was found to be under age. He was discharged from the Regiment after 10 days.
The message on his CWGC gravestone, put there by his father:
CLOSER WHEN WE MEET AGAIN