HOPKINS, Albert Bartlett
| Service Number: | 3154 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 August 1915, at Adelaide |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 27th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Kalunga, South Australia, Australia, June 1876 |
| Home Town: | Birkenhead, Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Red Hill Public School, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Butte de Warlencourt, Flers, France, 5 November 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3154, 27th Infantry Battalion, at Adelaide | |
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| 12 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 3154, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
| 12 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 3154, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Adelaide |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Adelaide High School
Albert Bartlett Hopkins was an Australian male Soldier who served in the 27th Battalion and was born in Kalunga, South Australia, Australia in June 1876. Hopkins’ occupation before the enlistment was as a labourer. His parents were said to be deceased and his mother’s name was Hannah Hopkins whereas his father’s name is unknown. He was the brother of W.E Hopkins who was referred in numerous documents of Albert. Hopkins was rather short, slim, and was inclined to red-haired and have a heavy red moustache but, he, in fact, had dark brown hair with hazel eyes.
Albert Bartlett Hopkins’ enlistment took place in Adelaide, South Australia on 5th August 1915 where he was ranked private, and his regimental number was 3154. He embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, onboard, HMAT A7 Medic dated 12th January 1916. Hopkins’ unit was the 27th Battalion, 7th Reinforcement and he was taken on strength in France on 6th July 1916. On 21st October 1915, Albert was hospitalized at Glaring Mitcham due to being diagnosed with a disease called pleurisy and was discharged after 9 days. Sadly, when Hopkins was in the 1916 offensive on the Somme at Fleurs doing a hop over in the early morning about 9:13 with another soldier in the 27th battalion named William Frederick Kothe, the eyewitness, he was shot in the forehead and was killed.
After this tragedy, which occurred on November 5th, 1916, Albert Bartlett Hopkins’ and many other soldiers’ deaths were remembered in the Chronicle Trove Newspaper. On Page.28 of the article, his brother, William Edwin Hopkins, his sister-in-law, and his children. His body was not located but he is commemorated on Villiers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.