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Lieutenant EDWARD MICHAEL HOPTON

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Shropshire Yeomanry

1st/1st

Date of Death

Died 17 March 1916

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) MILITARY AND WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

E. 119.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Lt. Gen. Sir Edward Hopton, K.C.B. and Lady Hopton, of Homend, Herefordshire; husband of Christabel Hopton, of Bartestree, Hereford.
  • Personal Inscription BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) MILITARY AND WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 2865
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