"IF THE CALL COMES
I AM WILLING TO DIE"
FROM HIS DIARY

LIEUTENANT HUGH JAMES PEARSON HOPKINSON

ROYAL ENGINEERS

6TH NOVEMBER 1915 AGE 23

BURIED: HILL 10 CEMETERY, GALLIPOLI, TURKEY


Hugh Hopkinson was articled to his father who was the engineer for the Hull Joint Dock. A volunteer, he went out to Gallipoli with the Royal Engineers. "On the night of the November 5 1915, he was superintending the laying of wire entanglements in front of the trenches, and was shot while bandaging a wounded man. He died on the way to the dressing station."
Oundle Memorials of the Great War MCMXIV - MCMXIX