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Major General GEORGE FREDERICK HOPKINSON

Regiment & Unit/Ship

General Staff

Cdg. 1st Airborne Div.

Date of Death

Died 12 September 1943

Age 47 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BARI WAR CEMETERY

X. B. 33.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and North Staffordshire Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of George Lister Hopkinson and Ada Hopkinson, of Retford, Nottinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription "PEACE, PERFECT PEACE"
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Buried or commemorated at

BARI WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2251
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