No.6020044, Private, Sydney HOPKINS
Aged 24
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most likely to be:- Sydney Hopkins was born on 19th June 1919 at Cambridge Road, Stretham (Ely Q3-1919 3B:669), baptised in Stretham on 24th October 1919, son of Edith HOPKINS, of Cambridge Road, Stretham. His mother married Athalstan DRIVER of Soham on 4 February 1925 in St Mary's, Stretham (Ely Q1-1925 3B:757). They had 4 children. The 1939 register has Sydney as a motor body painter, living at 207 Chesterton Road, Cambridge with hotel chef George and Lilian GERMANY and their son Ronald, while at Barway School were his stepfather Athalstan DRIVER [10-8-1886] yardman/labourer; his mother Edith [26-6-1894] and his half sister Ena May DRIVER [10-9-1935], later BARRICK. There are 2 closed records. Possibly the Sydney Hopkins who married Bertha E.MARTIN (Ely Q4-1940 3G:2099). |
| The 2nd Battalion, the Suffolk were part of the 123rd Indian Infantry Brigade, 5th Indian Infantry Division. They were operating in Burma at the start of 1944. |
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