East Yorkshire Regiment
Date of death: 16/04/1918 (aged 31)
BORN HULL 1887. ONLY SON OF PIER VAN OPPEN (1857-1922) & ANNIE HEBBLETHWAITE (1862-1923), OF 83 PEEL STREET, HULL (1901), 16 DOVER STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). SON OF A DUTCH WHOLESALE FRUIT MERCHANT. HE WORKED AS A COAL TRAVELLER AND CASHIER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE TERRITORIALS. PROMOTED TO LIEUTENANT. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 16/04/1918, AGED 31. HE IS BURIED AT BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY, FRANCE.
HE HAD MARRIED HILDA CHRISTINE DURMAN AT ROMFORD, ESSEX IN OCTOBER 1915. HE LEFT £119 IN HOS WILL TO HIS WIDOW, HILDA, LIVING AT 45 LOUIS STREET, SPRING BANK, HULL.
First name:
PIER WILLEM
Regiment:
Rank:
1st Lieutenant
Date Died
16/04/1918
Place died:
Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
31
45 , LOUIS STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
