Private Harry Hopkins - St Peter - Barrowden, Rutland - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

Memorial plaque dedicated too Private Harry Hopkins in St Pater's church, Barrowden. The plaque was re-sited in the church in 2008, following removal from the Baptist church which closed in 2003. A brass plaque below marks this occasion.

The memorial is a rectangular white marble scroll with incised inscription lettering infilled in black, mounted on a plain black rectangular stone tablet.

Memorial inscription -
IN
EVER LOVING MEMORY
OF
PTE HARRY HOPKINS,
THE BELOVED SON OF
JESSE & ANNIE ELIZABETH HOPKINS,
WHO WAS KILLED IN FRANCE, NOV 18TH 1916,
IN HIS 21ST YEAR.
HE WAS A SCHOLAR IN THIS SUNDAY SCHOOL.
"HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE."

"He was the son of Mr and Mrs Jesse Hopkins. He had been employed as an ironstone labourer before the war. He enlisted in the South Staffordshire Regiment and embarked for France in September 1916, he had entered the trenches for the first time and was engaged in making a dug out when he was hit by a German sniper and killed instantly. “He was one of my best men,” wrote his platoon commander, “and a very willing worker, and he was, I am sure, a son to be proud of. . . .It was his first time in the trenches.”"

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