Full Name: John “Jack” PARKER Nationality: Australian Rank: Second Leiutenant Service: Australian Infantry (AIF) Unit: 30th Battalion Age at Death: 21 Date of Death: 20 July 1916 Service Number: 572 Cemetery: Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery, France Memorial Reference: III.3.11 John’s Military Service papers: http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=8005334 Online Memorial: http://www.theage.com.au AIF Project entry: http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=233545 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/721612/PARKER,%20JOHN EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/721612/ ‘Jack’ was born on 21 August 1896 in Kiama, a township 120 kilometres south of Sydney, New South Wales in…
Full Name: Algernon Frank W KINGSNORTH Nationality: British Rank: Private Service: Army Service Corps Unit: Mechanical Transport Spare Parts Department Age at Death: 36 Date of Death: 19 September 1917 Service Number: M2/194805 Cemetery: Dar Es Salaam War Cemetery, Tanzania Memorial Reference: 3. A. 7. CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/898525/KINGSNORTH,%20FRANK%20WESLEY EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/898525/ Algernon was born on 15 February 1881 in Faversham, Kent, the second child born to Alfred Kingsnorth and his second wife, Vashti Wilmot. Algernon married Ada Dunn in 1910…
Full Name: Sidney Mark HOPPER Nationality: British Rank: Private Service: The Royal Sussex Regiment Unit: 7th Battalion Age at Death: 19 Date of Death: 5 March 1916 Service Number: G/967 Cemetery: Loos Memorial, France Memorial Reference: Panel 69-73 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/732207/HOPPER,%20SYDNEY%20MARK EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/732207/ Sidney was the fifth of eight children born to Percy and Ellen Hopper, who were married in Hastings, Sussex in 1888.
Full Name: Hedley Christopher E HOPPER Nationality: British Rank: Private Service: Royal West Surrey Reg (“The Queens”) Unit: 10th Battalion Age at Death: 22 Date of Death: 26 March 1918 Service Number: 207900 Cemetery: Arras Memorial, France Memorial Reference: Bay 2 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/784157/HOPPER,%20HEDLEY EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/784157/ Hedley was born in Dec 1895 in Kensington, London, the fifth of seven children born to William and Mary Hopper.
Full Name: Gilbert HOPPER Nationality: British Rank: Corporal Service: East Kent Regiment (“The Buffs”) Unit: 6th Battalion Age at Death: 30 Date of Death: 10 March 1916 Service Number: G/460 Cemetery: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium Memorial Reference: Panels 15-19 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/732203/HOPPER,%20GILBERT 3 EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/732203/ Before enlisting he worked for 12 years in the Goods Yard at the Priory Station, Dover. In the 1901 Census Gilbert was 15 years old and living at 22 Paul’s Place, Dover…
Full Name: Edward Charles HOPPER Nationality: British Rank: Serjeant Service: Royal Air Force Age at Death: 26 Date of Death: 25 February 1919 Service Number: 205113 Awards: Mentioned in Despatches Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Q. T. 30. Cemetery: Charlton Cemetery, Dover, Kent, UK CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/365389/HOPPER,%20EDWARD%20CHARLES EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/365389/ Edward Charles Hopper, 205113, was a Serjeant in the Royal Air Force. He was taken suddenly ill while at home on leave, and died at the Military Hospital, Western Heights, on…