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Lieutenant Frederick HOPKINS
2nd Battalion East Kent Regiment attached to the 1st Brahmin Regiment attached to the 1/5th Battalion Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) Date of birth: 9th May 1896 Date of death: 17th June 1919 Died aged 23 Commemorated on the Kirkee 1914-1918 Memorial Face F
Frederick Hopkins was born at 117, Camp Street, Broughton, Salford in Lancashire on the 9th of May 1896 the son of Edward Hopkins, a commercial traveller, and Annie Hopkins of "Vara", Palace Road, East Molesey in Surrey. He was christened in Manchester on the 14th of June 1896. He was educated at Lancing College where he was in Olds House from May 1910 to April 1913. He was in the Swimming Team in 1912 and was a member of the Officer Training Corps for two years. Following the outbreak of war he enlisted at Kempton Park Camp as Private PS/944 in the 16th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, University and Public Schools Corps on the 26th of September 1914. At a medical examination, which was held on the same day, it was recorded that he was five feet ten inches tall and that he weighed twelve stones and eight pounds. On the 9th of July 1915 he transferred to the 24th (Reserve) Battalion Middlesex Regiment at Woldingham in Surrey. He applied for a commission in the infantry on the 29th of July 1915 in an application supported by the Reverend Bowlby, Head Master of Lancing College. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the East Kent Regiment on the 20th of September 1915 and was posted to the 2nd Battalion of his regiment. He was later promoted to Lieutenant and applied for service with the Indian Army on the 4th of June 1917, expressing a preference for the cavalry. In the event he was posted to the 1st Brahmin Regiment. He applied for a transfer back to the British Army and was transferred to the 1/5th Battalion Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). He served in both Salonika and Mesopotamia He died at Colaba Hospital in Bombay from malaria, which he had contracted on active service and he was buried the following day.

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