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Flight Lieutenant JOHN VERE HOPGOOD

Service Number: 61281
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

617 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 17 May 1943

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY

Coll. grave 17. E. 2-6.

Germany

Famous casualties: Dambusters headstones in Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany

Photographer: Unknown

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar
  • Additional Info Son of Harold Burn Hopgood and Grace Hopgood, of Seaford, Sussex.
  • Personal Inscription BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART: FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 3339
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