THE FORGOTTEN FALLEN
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CHARLES FREDERICK HOPCRAFT Corporal 265759 2nd/1st Bucks Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Killed in Action aged 19 26th April 1917
Buried in Chapelle British Cemetery, Holnon, Aisne nr St.Quentin, France
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Charles Frederick Hopcraft was born in the spring of 1897 and his birth registered in Aylesbury. The 1901 census shows him staying at 35 Wellington Square, St Giles, Oxford, with his grandmother and father’s sister. His parents, Frederick and Florence, and baby sister Dorothy are listed as living at 71 Buckingham Road, Aylesbury near the New Zealand Public House. His father’s occupation is a Grocer's Assistant, and he was born in Wendover. In 1911 the family lived in Hardwick at the Post Office with Charles and his sister at school.
The Chapelle British Cemetery was created after the Armistice from various battlefields around Holnon and nearby woods. It lies North West of St. Quentin and is quite small compared to others nearby with the graves of 621 British soldiers who fell there during heavy fighting in the area in September 1918. A slate stone wall surrounds the site with a small enclosure and Stone Cross at the rear. It is now on the edge of a new housing development with main roads nearby; a credit to those who maintain it. |
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GO TO Forgotten Fallen list for more biographies of the men commemorated on the Weedon War Memorial.
