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Operation Archery: The Commandos and the Vaagso Raid 1941
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 205" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Hopkinson </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>George Frederick </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>former CO 11 Military Mission and GHQ Liaison Unit (Phantom) (LtCol) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Major General </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>19368 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>12th September 1943 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>47 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Bari War Cemetery,Italy X.B.33 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit North Staffordshire Reg.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>G.O.C. 1st Airborne Division at time of death</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born Nottinghamshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of George Lister and Ada Hopkinson,Retford,Nottinghamshire (single)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awards OBE,MC</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>served WW1 as Captain</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>qualified pilot</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>KIA Massafara,near Taranto,Italy</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Nov 1939 was Military Observer with No 3 Air Mission(Phantom)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1940 CO No 11 Military Mission(Phantom)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1940/41 CO GHQ Liaison Unit and Regiment (left autumn 1941) </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/g-hopkinson.1691/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/1/1691-14e627cd1c52f8a0e06c4f2d79cef96d.jpg?1591383308" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/g-hopkinson.37621/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/custom_thumbnail/37/37621-9bb6de34edf8f291dd66c6e501460fba.jpg?1664361605" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/g-f-hopkinson-grave.33796/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/33/33796-c84d66bc4da282f1a3bad7b08abf3f44.jpg?1598127627" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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