Albert “Hoppy” Hopton

Guardsman · #2657737 · G Patrol

Rank	Guardsman
Service number	#2657737
Patrol	G Patrol
Regiment	Coldstream Guards
Known as	“Hoppy”
Died	1941-06-27
POW / KIA	Died on active service — 27 June 1941 (Alamein Memorial, Column 54)

What this roll records

CWGC: Guardsman Albert Hopton, service no. 2657737, 3rd Bn Coldstream Guards and Long Range Desert Group. Died 27 June 1941, aged 24. No known grave; commemorated on the Alamein Memorial, Column 54, Egypt. Son of Bertram Hopton, and of May Melinda Hopton, of Goole, Yorkshire. Source: Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

ROLL OF HONOUR: died on active service with the LRDG (Coldstream Guards) per W.B. Kennedy Shaw, "Long Range Desert Group" appendices. Appendix 2.

His role in the patrol was gunner (Gnr).

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Where this comes from

AKA added from the LRDG Preservation Society’s Troopers roll (missing information).
Murzuk Raid roll (courtesy Tarek el Mahdy)
Listed in the LRDG Preservation Society’s Troopers roll.

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