First Name: | Walter George | Last Name: | HOPKINS | |
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Date of Death: | 27/02/1915 | Lived/Born In: | Ilford | |
Rank: | Corporal | Unit: | London5 | |
Memorial Site: | 1. Ilford, Newbury Park 2. Leyton Library | |||
Current Information:Age-27 86, Hampton Road, Ilford London Rifle Brigade Cemetery, Belgium
On 7th January, 1915, the 5th London battalion of 11 Brigade of 4th Division took over a new line from the River Warnave to the Estaminet trench, near Ploegsteert, where they remained for the rest of the month and through into February with companies rotating between the front and support lines and billets in reserve. The battalion diary recorded little about this period so there is no information concerning the death of Walter Hopkins who was killed on 27th February. The attrition rate among British soldiers on the Western Front was on average 300 each day and 60% of these were as a result of shellfire. When not involved in an actual battle it was either shell fire or a sniper’s bullet that caused most deaths and injuries. |
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