Richmond Herbert Hopes

Memorial: Mangotsfield - St James Place

Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps

Rank and number: Private 2288

Parents: Herbert James and Christiana Hopes (nee Gardener)

Marital status: Single

Home address: Pucklechurch, Bristol. Lived at Cossham Street, Mangotsfield

Pre-war occupation: Journeyman Book Binder

Date of birth: 1894

Date of death: 13/04/1915

Buried/Commemorated at: St. James Church, Mangotsfield, Bristol

Age: 21

Further information:

2nd/3rd (46th North Midlands Division), Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps

Died on 13 April 1915 of Meningitis and Septicaemia at Northampton War Hospital, Durston, Northants

Medals: Not eligible

By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):

Death Certificate, National Records, Commonwealth War Records, Attestation Papers, David Blackmore