A Poppy
A Poppy

Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
Links to
- CWGC Memorials -
- Turkey : Gallipoli : Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial -
- Robert Grossmith Hopkins -

Location

At Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Gallipoli
 
Description

Entry on memorial panel 21.
Memorial inscription

Turkey : Gallipoli : Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial : Robert Grossmith Hopkins
 
Inscription


WELLINGTON INFANTRY REGIMENT
PRIVATE
...
HOPKINS R.G.
...

 
Further Information

Robert Grossmith Hopkins

Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Hopkins, of 1, Rosehill Terrace, Drake Rd., Newport, Isle of Wight, England.

Father was Robert Grossmith Hopkins, Mother was Mary Anne Hopkins, (née Attree), who died in 1900. He remarried, in 1902, Minnie Salter.


Born : 1889, Cambridge.

Census information

1891 : Robert and Mary Anne Hopkins, with their children including Robert aged 2, are at 3 Victoria Terrace, Cambridge Road, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge. Robert Hopkins is a Pianoforte Tuner.

1901 : Robert G Hopkins, Widower, with his children including Robert aged 12, are at Beaumont, Shide Park, Newport, Isle of Wight. Robert Hopkins is a Pianoforte Tuner.

1911 : Robert G and Minnie Hopkins, with his son Robert aged 22, are at 12 West Street, Newport, Isle of Wight. Both father and son are Pianoforte Tuners.

Service information :

Private 10/471 Robert Grossmith Hopkins, Wellington Regiment, N.Z.E.F.

Casualty information :

Died 8 August 1915, aged 26.

CWGC record ...
 
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph record ...
 
His name is recorded on the following IW Memorials :

County War Memorial Carisbrooke Castle
Newport War Memorial
Sandown High School War Memorial
Newport St John's Church Men's Bible Class War Memorial
Newport C.E. National School War Memorial


 


 
 

 
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