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Private JOSEPH HOPSON

Service Number: 4616860
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 June 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOTTOT-LES-BAGUES WAR CEMETERY

X. G. 1.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Elizabeth Hopson, of Rossington, Yorkshire; husband of Mary Hopson, of Rossington.
  • Personal Inscription NOT JUST TODAY BUT EVERY DAY IN SILENCE WE REMEMBER. LOVING WIFE AND SON
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Buried or commemorated at

HOTTOT-LES-BAGUES WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 1138
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