Lieutenant R.E. Brigade. Signal officer. Youngest son of Dr John Hopkinson. He was wounded near Loos in France November 26 1915 and died later at home.
Rudolph Cecil Hopkinson was a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. He was the son of Dr John and Mrs Evelyn Hopkinson of 'Ellerslie', Adams Road, Cambridge. He went out to France in early 1915 and fought through the hell of the Second Battle of Ypres, when poison gas was extensively used, by both sides, for the first time. He was mentioned twice in dispatches.
He fought through the Battle of Loos, when the poison gas used by the British floated back onto their own lines, but was shortly after severely wounded near Loos on Nov 24 1915 and died after suffering heroically borne at his mother's house in Cambridge on February 9th 1917. He was 25 years old.
The memorial is superb, the upper part forming a sundial and decorated with Art Nouveau flowers. The side of the memorial records that His men wrote of him "A true gentleman, he was both officer and comrade to us." and "I shall never forget his wonderful personality and the respect in which he was held by the men he commanded. In all my work I try to emulate the grand example he set." The memorial also remembers his mother.
He was a friend of Lawrence Bragg, later Sir Lawrence Bragg (1890 - 1971), Nobel Prize winner; Bragg married Hopkinson's cousin Alice, later Lady Alice Bragg.
(additional information by Martin Packer).
Rudolph Cecil Hopkinson was a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. He was the son of Dr John and Mrs Evelyn Hopkinson of 'Ellerslie', Adams Road, Cambridge. He went out to France in early 1915 and fought through the hell of the Second Battle of Ypres, when poison gas was extensively used, by both sides, for the first time. He was mentioned twice in dispatches.
He fought through the Battle of Loos, when the poison gas used by the British floated back onto their own lines, but was shortly after severely wounded near Loos on Nov 24 1915 and died after suffering heroically borne at his mother's house in Cambridge on February 9th 1917. He was 25 years old.
The memorial is superb, the upper part forming a sundial and decorated with Art Nouveau flowers. The side of the memorial records that His men wrote of him "A true gentleman, he was both officer and comrade to us." and "I shall never forget his wonderful personality and the respect in which he was held by the men he commanded. In all my work I try to emulate the grand example he set." The memorial also remembers his mother.
He was a friend of Lawrence Bragg, later Sir Lawrence Bragg (1890 - 1971), Nobel Prize winner; Bragg married Hopkinson's cousin Alice, later Lady Alice Bragg.
(additional information by Martin Packer).
Lieutenant R.E. Brigade. Signal officer. Youngest son of Dr John Hopkinson. He was wounded near Loos in France November 26 1915 and died later at home.
Rudolph Cecil Hopkinson was a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. He was the son of Dr John and Mrs Evelyn Hopkinson of 'Ellerslie', Adams Road, Cambridge. He went out to France in early 1915 and fought through the hell of the Second Battle of Ypres, when poison gas was extensively used, by both sides, for the first time. He was mentioned twice in dispatches.
He fought through the Battle of Loos, when the poison gas used by the British floated back onto their own lines, but was shortly after severely wounded near Loos on Nov 24 1915 and died after suffering heroically borne at his mother's house in Cambridge on February 9th 1917. He was 25 years old.
The memorial is superb, the upper part forming a sundial and decorated with Art Nouveau flowers. The side of the memorial records that His men wrote of him "A true gentleman, he was both officer and comrade to us." and "I shall never forget his wonderful personality and the respect in which he was held by the men he commanded. In all my work I try to emulate the grand example he set." The memorial also remembers his mother.
He was a friend of Lawrence Bragg, later Sir Lawrence Bragg (1890 - 1971), Nobel Prize winner; Bragg married Hopkinson's cousin Alice, later Lady Alice Bragg.
(additional information by Martin Packer).
Rudolph Cecil Hopkinson was a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. He was the son of Dr John and Mrs Evelyn Hopkinson of 'Ellerslie', Adams Road, Cambridge. He went out to France in early 1915 and fought through the hell of the Second Battle of Ypres, when poison gas was extensively used, by both sides, for the first time. He was mentioned twice in dispatches.
He fought through the Battle of Loos, when the poison gas used by the British floated back onto their own lines, but was shortly after severely wounded near Loos on Nov 24 1915 and died after suffering heroically borne at his mother's house in Cambridge on February 9th 1917. He was 25 years old.
The memorial is superb, the upper part forming a sundial and decorated with Art Nouveau flowers. The side of the memorial records that His men wrote of him "A true gentleman, he was both officer and comrade to us." and "I shall never forget his wonderful personality and the respect in which he was held by the men he commanded. In all my work I try to emulate the grand example he set." The memorial also remembers his mother.
He was a friend of Lawrence Bragg, later Sir Lawrence Bragg (1890 - 1971), Nobel Prize winner; Bragg married Hopkinson's cousin Alice, later Lady Alice Bragg.
(additional information by Martin Packer).
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