John Henry Hope

Forename(s):
John Henry

Surname:
Hope

Initial(s):
J H

Service Number:
202434

Rank:
Bombardier

Regiment:
Royal Horse Artillery & Royal Field Artillery, 'B' Battery, 212th Brigade.

Died:
28/03/1918

Aged:
25

Buried:
St. Hilaire Cemetery & Extension, Frévent

Service History:
Enlisted at Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.

Formerly Private, Royal Army Service Corps Remounts, R.T.S. 1661 - joined 14 December 1914.

Served with the Expeditionary Force in France & Flanders from 27 January 1917.

Transferred to the Royal Field Artillery.

Died at No. 6 Stationary Hospital from wounds received in action at Bethune the previous day.
(Sources: 'UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-18'; Part 5; Page 88. Also, 'Portraits of War...'; Edited & compiled by June Watson; Wildgoose Press; 2016; p. 72)

Background:
Born on 25 February, 1893, at Warenton, Northumberland, the son of Thomasina Hope (daughter of Thomas Pace Fleetham), of Birling, North Field, Warkworth, Northumberland, & the late Robert Hope.

Two brothers - George T. & Robert T. (served with the Royal Irish Regiment & badly wounded in October 1918 when he lost his right leg) - & two sisters, Margeretta & Mary Rutter Hope.

Educated at Lesbury, Northumberland.

In 1911, Hope was employed as a Groom (Domestic) at Horton Grange, Woolsington, Newcastle upon Tyne, where he was living in as a boarder. Subsequently, he may have been a more general Farm Worker.
(Sources: 'UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-18'; Part 5; Page 88. Also, 'Portraits of War...'; Edited & compiled by June Watson; Wildgoose Press; 2016; p. 72)

Local Memorial:
Probably, Warkworth War Memorial, by St Lawrence's Church Warkworth, United Reformed Church Roll of Honour (N.B. The element of doubt is whether or not this man, who has Warkworth connections, may have been confused with John Henry [Harold] Hope who is m