All entries within the GPR for the family name HOPER

Thank you for the photo of the Memorial Plaque in St Nicholas' Church New Romney in Kent. On it is my friend's Great Uncle Abraham Hoper. He enlisted when he was 18 into the East Kent Regiment with the Service number 4868, he served in the Second Boer War (1899-1902), he was then discharged to the Army Reserves, and was called up for Service in WW1 and given the number S/317 in the 6th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment When he first embarked for France on the 1st June 1915, he was a Lance Corporal, and was later promoted to a Sergeant. He was Killed in Action on the 2nd of July 1918 and is buried in Grave F8 at Harponville Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme. He was born in 1877, the son of Stephen and Eliza Hoper. He left a son Jack Roland Hoper, a step-son Edward Richard Norman and his widow Harriet Kate of 40 Sidney Street Folkestone Kent, who Abraham married in 1902, (Harriet Kate was born Harriet Kate Hoper and married in 1899 to Edward Norman who died in 1900). Abraham was awarded the British War Medal, the Victory Medal and the 1914-15 Star.