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Samuel Hopwood

Details

Forename Samuel
Surname Hopwood
Middle Name
Memorial Tyldesley Cenotaph
Age 37
Address 10 Parr Street
Parents' Address Radcliffe
Township Tyldesley
Rank Private
Occupation or place of work Colliery Worker at Mosley Common Pit
Regiment Royal Scots Fusiliers 1/4th Batt
Day of Death 20
Month of Death November
Year of Death 1918
Cause of Death Died of wounds
Place of Burial Tyldesley Cemetery
Regiment Number 12326
Name of War First World War
Location
Additional Information Died in hospital in Birmingham. Son of Joseph and Emma and husband of Mary Jane Melling (Hopwood). Fought in the Boer War
CWGC, Ancestry, LJ 8/11/18 - wounded. LJ 29/11/18 - death