Hooper Arthur Brian Wilfred Capt 117152

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Name Hooper Arthur Brian Wilfred
Army number 117152
Rank Captain
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Date of birth
Age 0
Unit Served in the ranks of the Suffolk Regiment. Cadet at Sandhurst OCTU. Emergency Commission in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry 21/1/1940. Transferred to the Herefordshire Regiment. Attached to The Black Watch,posted 1 TS 2/7/1944. With the Battalion on disbandment. Attached to the Essex Regiment, posted 2nd Battalion (no date given). Re-joined King's Shropshire Light Infantry. KILLED in ACTION 26/10/1944 with KSLI.
Company/Battery D Coy
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Company 2 i/c
Joined Brigade 2/7/1944.
Promotions
Wounded
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action 26-Oct-44
Home address Son of Edgar Wilfred Hooper and Lilian Wells Hooper of Lifton, Devon. BA, LL.B.(Cantab). Buried Grave 6. C. 11. Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery.
Source table 1TS