HOPE, Ralph
| Service Number: | 2165 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 May 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 33rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Wellington, New South Wales, Australia , 26 March 1886 |
| Home Town: | Bingara, New England, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Painter and Docker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 30 March 1918, aged 32 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hamilton War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 15 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2165, 33rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 24 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 2165, 33rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 2165, 33rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 30th March 1918, Private Ralph Hope, 33rd Battalion (Lewis Machine Gunner, Reg No-2165), married painter & docker from Teralba Road, Broadmeadow, New South Wales, father of three (Ralph R, 1911, Sidney G, 1913, Jack, 1915), was Killed in Action when shot by a German sniper during the Battle of Hangard Wood near Villers Bretonneux, France, age 32.
No Roll of Honour circular submitted.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Wellington, New South Wales on the 28th March 1886 to John Thomas (died 24.5.1936, Mayfield, N.S.W., age 82), and Jane Ann Hope nee Gibson (died 18.3.1929, Hamilton, N.S.W., age 74), from "Tyneside", Sydney Road, Broadmeadow, N.S.W.; husband of Mary Ruby Hope nee Jones (married 1910, Kurri Kurri, N.S.W., died?), from Hamilton West, N.S.W. (1918) and Maitland Street, Kurri Kurri, N.S.W. (1919) and Stanford Merthyr, N.S.W. (1919) and Daceyville, N.S.W. (1920), Ralph enlisted on the 15th May 1916 at Wallsend, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A68 Anchises on the 24th August 1916.
Disembarked Devonport, England 11.10.1916.
Admitted to hospital 6.8.1917 (enteritis).
Granted leave to England from 23.2.1918 to 14.3.1918.
Mr. Hope’s name has been inscribed on the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France.
Many thanks to Thierry Grier for the Memorial photos.
Place of Association - Broadmeadow, New South Wales, Australia.
Ralph’s name has also been inscribed on the Hamilton Municipal District Roll of Honor, Hamilton (Gregson Park) War Memorial and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Broadmeadow did not produce a War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised Hope gravesite in remembrance of their son’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. BAPTIST G SE. 33.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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