Remembering today: John Harrison Hopkins Stoker 1st Class 120605 Royal Navy, HMS Cromer Died: 9/11/1942 Commemorated: Plymouth Memorial Son of Charles and Lucy Hopkins, of Billesley, Warwickshire Remembered with honour.
Remembering today: John Harrison Hopkins Stoker 1st Class 120605 Royal Navy, HMS Cromer Died: 9/11/1942 Commemorated: Plymouth Memorial Son of Charles and Lucy Hopkins, of Billesley, Warwickshire Remembered with honour. Details of the above loss. 9 November 1942 HMS Cromer was sunk by a mine off Mersa Matruh, Egypt.
Johnny Hopkins was my mother’s uncle. My partner is putting together a family tree for my parents, my mum was talking about him and his brothers on Sunday.
UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960 Name: John Harrison Hopkins Event: Death Birth Date: 14 Aug 1920 Birth Place: Birmingham, Warwickshire Death Date: 9 Nov 1942 Death Age: 22 Web: International, Find A Grave Index Name: Stoker 1st Class John Harrison Hopkins Death Date: 9 Nov 1942 Burial Place: Plymouth, Devon, England URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-... UK, Commonwealth War Graves, 1914-1921 and 1939-1947 Name: John Harrisson Hopkins Age: 22 Birth Date: abt 1920 Death Date: 9 Nov 1942 Cemetery: Naval Memorials In The United Kingdom Plymouth Part V Burial Country: England Father: Charles Hopkins Mother: Lucy Hopkins Regimental Number: D/KX 120605 Region or Memorial: Memorial Register UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current Name: Stoker 1st Class John Harrison Hopkins Death Date: 9 Nov 1942 Cemetery: Plymouth Naval Memorial Burial or Cremation Place: Plymouth, Plymouth Unitary Authority, Devon, England Has Bio?: N URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-... England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2005 Name: John H Hopkins Mother's Maiden Surname: Ponsford Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1920 Registration district: Kings N Inferred County: Warwickshire Volume Number: 6d Page Number: 143 TD Added: For information - there are 2 family trees that include him on Ancestry
Thank you for all the details .... we’re quite amateur at this stuff. We had more success finding his brother Jim Hopkins. He was 77 Squadron (Bomber Command)... his life ... particular the shooting down of his Halifax on 1st September 43 features on a number of websites and pages. Pete
See also: HMS Cromer (J 128) of the Royal Navy - British Minesweeper of the Bangor class - Allied Warships of WWII - uboat.net Tim
1939 REGISTER TRANSCRIPTION 62 Vimy Road, Birmingham, Warwickshire NAME DOB OCCUPATION Charles Hopkins 23 Mar 1875 Navvy Heavy Worker Lucy Hopkins 02 Jan 1889 Unpaid Domestic Duties Beatrice Hutton (Hopkins) 24 Mar 1914 Radiator Tube Cutter Sorry, this record is officially closed. Sorry, this record is officially closed. Sorry, this record is officially closed. Dennis Hopkins 29 Dec 1926 At School Sidney Hall 11 Jun 1910 Bread Roundsman
My maternal grandfather Walter Richards (Stoker) was on that ship when it was sunk. He lost all of his mates. Presumably they knew each other. I know he was picked up by a South African cargo vessel, and taken back to blighty. The admiralty charged him for losing his kit. He never spoke of this to his family so i guess it hit him pretty hard.