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: Archibald Gordon WILLIS Nationality: British Rank: Sergeant (Air Gunner) Service: Royal Air Force Vessel: 48 Squadron Age at Death: 20 Date of Death: 31 July 1940 Service Number: 568341 Cemetery: Carew (St Marys) New Churchyard, Pembrokeshire, Wales Reference: Row C, Grave 3 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2965510/WILLIS,%20ARCHIBALD%20GORDON Born in the Kent village of Barham in 1920, Archie was the only son of Archibald Frank Willis and Nellie Flack. His father served in the Great War as a Corporal of Horse in the…
Full Name: John Henry Thomas HOGBEN Nationality: British Rank: Stoker, First Class Service: Royal Navy Unit: HMS Imogen Age at Death: 20 Date of Death: 16 July 1940 Service Number: C/KX 93531 Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent, UK Reference: 38, 2 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2468693/HOGBEN,%20JOHN%20HENRY%20THOMAS John Hogben was born in 1920 in Dover, the eldest of eight children born to John and Alice Hogben (nee Willis). On July 16th 1940 HMS “Imogen” was in collision with HM Cruiser “Glasgow” in thick fog…