HOPTON, Henry
| Service Number: | 6277 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 April 1916, Bundaberg, Queensland |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 15th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lambton, New South Wales, Australia , 30 August 1887 |
| Home Town: | Bundaberg, Bundaberg, Queensland |
| Schooling: | New Lambton Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 4 July 1918, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: |
Crucifix Corner Cemetery, Picardie Grave Reference: X. B. 6, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bundaberg War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Apr 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6277, Bundaberg, Queensland | |
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| 7 Sep 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 6277, 15th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Clan McGillivray embarkation_ship_number: A46 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Sep 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 6277, 15th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Clan McGillivray, Brisbane | |
| 4 Jul 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 6277, 15th Infantry Battalion, Le Hamel - Blueprint for Victory |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Mark Wilkinson
"PRIVATE HOPTON.- Mrs. A. M. Hopton, of Broadmeadow (late of New Lambton), has received word that her son, Private Henry Hopton, was killed in action in France on July 4." - from the Newcastle Morning Herald 18 Jul 1918 (nla.gov.au)
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery, N.S.W.
107 years ago today, on the 4th July 1918, Private Henry Hopton, 15th Battalion (Reg No-6277), labourer from North Bundaberg, Queensland, was Killed in Action during the Battle of Hamel, age 30. Cause of death unknown.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 30th August 1887 to John William (married 1879, Newcastle, N.S.W., died 19.4.1937?, Wickham, N.S.W., age 82), from 20 Lewis Street, Maryville, New South Wales, and Annie Maria Hopton nee Dean (died 16.3.1928, 77 Winship Street, Hamilton, N.S.W., age 67, separated 1905?, divorced?, re-married to Henry Moxon 1918, Newcastle, N.S.W., mother of 8?), from New Lambton, New South Wales and Broadmeadow, N.S.W. (1917) and 70 Winship Street, Hamilton, N.S.W. (1919) and 13 Morgan Street, Merewether, N.S.W. (1921), Henry enlisted on the 6th April 1916 at Bundaberg, Queensland.
Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland on board HMAT A46 Clan Macgillivray on the 7th September 1916.
Disembarked Plymouth, England 2.11.1916.
Wounded in action - 1.7.1917 (GSW both legs).
Henry was laid to rest on the 6th July 1918 at Crucifix Corner Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, France. Plot X Row B Grave 6.
Many thanks to Thierry Grier for cemetery and headstone photos.
Place of Association - Lambton, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Mr. Hopton’s name has been inscribed on the Lambton and New Lambton Municipal District Roll of Honor, New Lambton War Memorial Gates, New Lambton Public School Roll of Honour as A. HOPTON, Bundaberg War Memorial and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised Annie Maria Moxon gravesite in remembrance of the service and supreme sacrifice of her son for God, King & Country. BAPTIST F SE. 35.
Memorialised same location as brother-in-law Cecil William Hincks (born Adamstown, New South Wales 17.5.1891 as Lesceil W Hinks, married miner from Regent Street, New Lambton, New South Wales, father of one, Thelma, born 24.10.1916, New Lambton, N.S.W., enlisted 9.1.1916, 35th Battalion, Reg No-1486, KIA 7.6.1917, Battle of Messines, age 26, resting at Strand Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot VIII Row F Grave 1).
Many thanks to Eddy Lin for headstone photo.
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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