Service Details
Name:
 HOPLEY
Given Name:
 GEOFFREY WILLIAM VAN DER BYL
Initials:
 G W V D B
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Grenadier Guards
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Unit:
 2nd Bn.
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Date of Death:
 1915-05-12
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Date of Birth:
 1891-09-09
Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, received in France
Additional
Information:
Son of William Musgrove and Anna Catharina (nee van der Bijl) Hopley. Born Kimberley, Cape Province, South Africa. A cricketer. He was in the Harrow Eleven in 1909 and 1910, in the latter season being second in the batting averages with 27.18. In his two matches against Eton he scored 1 and 23, 35 and 8. Proceeding to Cambridge, he obtained his Blue in 1912, making 14 and 6 not out v Oxford, but was unable to keep his place in either of the two following years. In 1914 he gave every promise of regaining a position in the side, scoring 29 and 120 in the Seniors' Match and 86 and 68 in a Trial game, but later he was quite out of form. In 1912 he won the heavyweight boxing for Cambridge. He was brother of Mr. F. J. V. Hopley, and had been a member of the MCC since 1911.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Middlesex
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Cemetery:
 HARROW CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 19. I. 3306.

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