The Roll of Honour

Category: Tower Hill Memorial – London

Full Name: Walter John HOPPER Nationality: British   Rank: Chief Engineer Officer Service: Merchant Navy Vessel: S.S. Maid of Kent (London) Age at Death: 54 Date of Death: 21 May 1940 Cemetery: Tower Hill Memorial, London, UK CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2789926/HOPPER,%20WALTER EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/2789926/ Walter was born in 1894 in Margate, Kent and was the only child born to Charles Hopper and Rose Huxstep. In the 1911 Census Walter (aged 17) is described as a solicitor’s clerk. In 1916 Walter married Elizabeth Ford…

Full Name:  William Ernest Sydney SHEPHERD Nationality:  British   Rank:  Boatswain Service:  Merchant Navy Vessel:  Cable Ship “Alert” (UK) Age at Death:  34 Date of Death:  24 February 1945 Service Number:  402063 Memorial:  Tower Hill Memorial, London, UK Reference:  Panel 5 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2796820/SHEPHERD,%20WILLIAM%20ERNEST%20SYDNEY William Shepherd was born on 30 November 1908 in Plumstead, Kent – the only child of William James Shepherd and Olive Camilla Hopper.   He married Winifred Imrie in December 1938 and a son was born to them…

Full Name:  Stanley Gordon GOLDSACK Nationality: British Rank: Troop Baker (Asst.) Service:  Mercantile Marine Vessel:   S.S. “Minnetonka” (Belfast) Age at Death: 29 Date of Death: 31 January 1918 Cemetery:  Tower Hill Memorial, London, UK CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2887142/GOLDSACK,%20STANLEY%20GORDON EVERY MAN REMEMBERED:  http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/2887142/ Stanley was born in 1889 in St Margarets at Cliffe, Dover, the second of eight children born to Thomas Samuel and Julia Goldsack, of 3, Wellerby Terrace, St. Margaret’s-at-Cliffe, Dover.   Stanley drowned as a result of an attack by an…

Full Name:   William John ARNOLD Nationality:   British   Rank:   Able Seaman Service:   Mercantile Marine Vessel:   SS Achille Adam Age at Death:   28 Date of Death:   23 March 1917 Service Number:   n/k Memorial:   Tower Hill Memorial, London, UK CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2979126/ARNOLD,%20WILLIAM%20JOHN EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/2979126/ William was born in 1889 in Dover, England, the third of 6 children born to Edward and Elizabeth Arnold (nee Fisher). In the 1901 Census William was 12 years old and living…