In Memory Of

HOPKINS, REGINALD JOHN

Service Details
Age:
 24
Date of Birth:
 1917-07-28
Service No:
 111240
Rank:
 Pilot Officer
Unit:
 21 Operational Training Unit
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death:
 1941-12-23
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Wellington DV422, training took off from RAF Edgehill for general handling practice. While demonstrating stalling and recovery the aircraft went into a dive and at 14:20 crashed and burned near Wild Spring Farm, Little Tew, 5 miles east-north-east of Chipping Norton with the loss of 6 crew
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 24. A. 11.
Cemetery:
 BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Surrey
Country:
 United Kingdom
Additional Information
Son of Walter Henry and Christine Maria Hopkins; husband of Barbara Dawn Hopkins, of Manor Park, Essex. Of South Africa. Born Waku, Cape Province. Educated Cambridge High School; General Botha Cadet Draft 1932-3. (Junior Cadet Captain). Reginald John Hopkins joined the Thesen Line in 1934 as an Apprentice.