Cross Edward Hopkinson Cpl 4456308
Personnel Entry
Name Cross Edward Hopkinson
Army number 4456308
Rank Corporal.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Not known.
Age (At the time of his death) Not known.
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date as yet, but his number suggests Spring 1939. Posted ? 9th Battalion. Posted to the ? 12th Battalion 1/9/1939. Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish. Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France. Evacuated to the UK via Dunkirk. Posted to the Combined Training Centre, Dundonald, by August 1942. Discharged under King's Regulations 1940 Para 390 (xviii)a 29/8/43.
Company/Battery B Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not known.
Task or role Possibly Rifle Section Commander.
Joined Brigade 1/9/1939.
Promotions Corporal.
Wounded Not known.
Prisoner of War No.
Died/Killed in action Date of death not known.
Home address 76, Park Lane, Gateshead.
Source table 1TS
Edward featured in the War Office "missing" exercise in 1942.
