BORN SHEFFIELD 12/02/1873. ONLY SON OF JOHN HOPKINSON WHO DIED IN 1891. THE FAMILY LIVED AT EPWORTH, LINCS AND LONDON, MOVING TO HULL IN 1891 AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER. HIS MOTHER DIED IN 1907. HE LIVED WITH HIS MOTHER, SOPHIA BROCK AND SISTER SARAH, AT 147, BEAN STREET, HULL (1901 ADDRESS) AND WITH HIS UNMARRIED WIFE, MARY JANE TOWNEND, AT 13 ALFRED STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDDRESS).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE ROYAL AIR FORCE. DIED IN AN ACCIDENT ON SALSIBURY PLAIN, AMSBURY, WILTSHIRE, ON 15/09/1918, AGED 46. BURIED AT HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS SISTER SARAH E COOK. HIS WAR PENSION WENT TO MARY JANE TOWNEND AT 13 ALFRED STRETE, HESSLE ROAD, HULL.
First name:
JOSEPH JAMES
Military Number:
260785
Rank:
Private
Date Died
15/09/1918
Place died:
Hull Western Cemetery, East Yorkshire, UK
Age:
46
13 ALFRED STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
