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Lieutenant Warwick Charles HOPKINS
40th Anti Aircraft Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery Date of birth: 6th November 1877 Date of death: 27th February 1928 Died aged 50 Buried at Hove Cemetery
Warwick Charles Hopkins was born at 20 Marine Square, Kemptown, Brighton in Sussex on the 6th of November 1877 the third son of Charles Hopkins, a member of the Stock Exchange, and Mary Hopkins of 50 Gloucester Place in London and later of 12 Sandringham Gardens, Ealing in Middlesex. He was christened at Paddington in London on the 1st of March 1878. He left Hazelwood School at July 1892 for Repton School where he was in Brook House from September 1892 to December 1897. On leaving school he followed his father into the Stock Exchange by becoming a clerk there. He applied for membership of the Stock Exchange from the 25th of March 1904. He enlisted at Hove as Gunner CC76 in the Royal Garrison Artillery on the 8th of December 1915. At a medical examination, which had taken place on the previous day, it was recorded that he was five feet eight and a quarter inches tall and that he weighed 160lbs. He joined the Army Reserve on the 9th of December. He applied for a commission in the Royal Garrison Artillery on the 24th of May 1916 and was mobilised on the 14th of June 1916. He joined B Reserve Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery at St John's Wood as an Officer Cadet on the 17th of June where he underwent a Royal Garrison Artillery Anti Aircraft course. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery on the 22nd of August 1916 and served with the 40th Anti Aircraft Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. He was demobilised due to ill health at No. 2 Dispersal Unit at Crystal Palace on the 31st of January 1919. He was married to Dorothy (nee Salmon) at St Barnabus' Church, Hove on the 29th of April 1915 and they lived at 105 The Drive, Hove in Sussex. They had a son, Peter Warwick, born at Hove on the 8th of March 1916. He died suddenly at the Evelyn Nursing Home, Trumpington in Cambridgeshire and his funeral was held at 2pm on the 2nd of March 1928.

Went on to Repton School