Lance Corporal David Hopkinson

Army Number: 18896 or 18996

Battalion : 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Son of Henry and Elizabeth Hopkinson, of North Scarle, Lincoln; Husband of Catherine Emma Hopkinson, of 17, Cromford Road, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire. Went to France on 23rd September 1915. Killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 26, during the attack on the German positions near Ovillers, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.