ALAN CLEMENT HOPWOOD
2 February 1899 - 18 September 1918
At School 1911 - 1916
2nd Lieut 152nd Field Coy Royal Engineers
THE HULMEIAN – December 1918
Old Hulmeians and the War
Deaths
Second Lieutenant A C HOPWOOD, Royal Engineers, who died of wounds on September 18th, entered the School in September, 1911, and left at Midsummer, 1916, with a leaving exhibition for the School of Technology. He will be well remembered by many boys still in the School, in which he took a high place in his forms, captained the second football and cricket elevens, and was honorary secretary to the Scientific Society. He took a great interest in railways, and had begun his engineering studies at the School of Technology when he obtained a commission from the University O T C, in the Royal Engineers. His O C wrote as follows to his father: “If it is any comfort to you to know that he was a soldier, then I can assure you that he was through and through. He died like a soldier, uncomplaining,
2nd Lieutenant, 152nd Field Company, Royal Engineers
Died of wounds 18th September 1918, age 19.
Buried at Ruyaulcourt Military Cemetery
Student of electrical engineering.
Alan, born on 2nd February 1899 at Camberwell, was the youngest on of Ernest A. , a civil servant in the patent office, and Myra J. Hopwood of Chorlton-cum-Hardy and later Macclesfield. He was educated at St. Margaret’s School, Hulme Grammar School (1911-1916) where he was captain of the second football team and cricket elevens. He came to Manchester University to study electrical engineering and passed his intermediate exams for a BSc Technology. From October 1916 to August 1917 Alan was a member of the University Officer Training Corps and in December 1917 he was gazetted. He served with the Royal Engineers and died of wounds in September 1918 leaving effects worth £141 15s 11d to his father.