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Charles Hopkins

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Charles AWMM
  • Surname
    Hopkins AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 61645 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    1914-1919 Western Front AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 61645 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
    • Trentham AWMM
    • Sling camp England on the Lewis Gun AWMM
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 25 May 1917 AWMM
    Age 39 AWMM
    Farm manager/Civilian AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    • Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
      Rubella, admitted to Brimstone Bottom Hospital AWMM
    • Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
      Heart failure AWMM

Last known rank

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  • Last rank
    Inter War 25 June 1919 AWMM Private AWMM

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Family records also show that Charles Hopkins embarked on 16 November 1917 on board the vessel 'Tahiti', from Wellington bound for England. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    12 December 1964 AWMM
    Age 88 AWMM
    Gisborne, Gisborne AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died of Disease AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Taruheru Cemetery, Nelson Road, Gisborne District, New Zealand AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Gisborne Herald AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • External links
    Military personnel file
    https://collections.archives.govt.nz/en-NZ/web/arena/search#/entity/aims-archive/R18049674
    Further Reference
  • References
    • McDonald, W. (2013). Honours and Awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. (3rd ed.). Hamilton, N.Z.: Richard Stowers. AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      75: 8 AWMM
    • Gisborne Herald AWMM
      Gisborne Herald AWMM
    • Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications AWMM
      Vol. 3: Includes portrait AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM

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