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In loving memory of
Edward Michael Hopton
Lieut in the Shropshire Yeomanry
Son of Lieut Gen Sir Edward Hopton K.C.B.
Who died at Alexandria March 17 1916
While on active service during the Great War
Aged 31
"Blest are the pure in heart for they shall see God"
Erected by his wife
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St Lawrence Stretton Grandison
Herefordshire
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Edward Michael
Hopton
16th September 1884
Ranikhet, Bengal, India
17th March 1916
Died in Alexandria, Egypt from pneumonia
31
Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
First World War
Lieutenant
1st/1st Battalion Shropshire Yeomanry
His brother Guy was also killed in Belgium in 1915
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