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First Name: Edward Last Name: HOPKINS
Date of Death: 25/12/1915 Lived/Born In: Brentford
Rank: Private Unit: Royal Fusiliers9
Memorial Site: Brentford Memorial

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Age-30

Born-Brentford

Gorre British & Indian Cemetery, France

Christmas Day, 1915 was not a happy one for “A” Company of 9th Royal Fusiliers, 36 Brigade, 12th Division. That morning the battalion had moved into the front line at Givenchy in northern France and a shell had exploded in the midst of a platoon of men killing 5 of them, including Private Hopkins, and wounding another 6.

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