BORN PATRINGTON 1887. SON OF SIEGFRIED & RACHEL OPET OF HARROGATE & 1 QUEENS STREET, WITHERNSEA. HIS PARENTS RAN A DRAPERY BUSINESS.
HE SERVED AS RIFLEMAN, 4813 AND LANCE CORPORAL, 302899, 5TH LONDON REGIMENT. POSTED TO FRANCE ON 28/08/1916. RECEIVED GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO THE LEG ON 17/09/1916. COMMISSIONED 27/11/1917. HE SERVED AS SECOND LIEUTENANT IN THE 7TH POST OFFICE RIFLES. TAKEN PRISONER AND DIED OF WOUNDS IN GERMAN HANDS, ON 23/03/1918, DURING THE GERMAN SPRING OFFENSIVE. HE WAS AGED 30.
HE LEFT HIS MEDALS AND £135 IN WILL TO HIS FATHER, SIEGFRIED OPET, IN HARROGATE.
HIS NAME IS ALSO RECORDED ON THE HULL WESTERN SYNAGOGUE, LINNAEUS STREET, HULL/ HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN IN THE MIDST OF BATTLE/ IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/ (Names)/ NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION, NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANYMORE.
HE IS ALSO RECORDED IN BRITISH JEWRY BOOK AS 2/LIEUTENANT, T.H.OPET, 8TH LONDON’S, 23/03/1918, FROM 1 QUEEN STREET, WITHERNSEA, YORKSHIRE.
A SERGEANT CAPTURED AT THE SAME TIME AS OPET GIVES A PERSONAL ACCOUNT HERE:-
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