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983Private Frederick Arthur Hopps
Army 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:27, Harehills Terrace, Roundhay Rd., Leeds.
(d.2nd September 1918)
Frederick Hopps was compulsorily transferred from Army Service Corps to 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers mid January 1918 and was killed in action 2nd September same year. Grave at Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery (near Ypres) - Grave reference IV.G.17. At rest with about 20 (actually 21 others) comrades from the same battalion who died on the same day. R.I.P. He was the son of Mrs. A. E. Hopps and was aged 24 when he was killed. The others who died that day are: BOYLEN J 41678 7TH BN CROWTHER H 41905 1ST BN DOORIS T 26917 1ST BN HARDY C J 49978 1ST BN HEATH G D 49993 1ST BN HEATHMAN H 50019 1ST BN HOLLAND H 49811 1ST BN HOPPS FA 41860 1ST BN HYLAND J 11056 1ST BN JAGGER E 41882 1ST BN JONES WJ 49911 1ST BN KOSZEGI F 29616 1ST BN LEAH J 23478 1ST BN LINNEY E H 41811 1ST BN MCGEEHAN N 40134 1ST BN MONTGOMERY S 2482 1ST BN O'CONNOR H 6964 1ST BN PARFITT F E 50018 1ST BN PARTINGTON M R 49980 1ST BN SHERIDAN P 23754 1ST BN
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