HOOPER Albert

  • First Name(s):
    Albert 
  • Surname:
    HOOPER
  • Service Number:
    28716
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Corps:
    Machine Gun Corps
  • Regiment:
    Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
  • Unit:
    15th Company
  • Former Units:
    Formerly 3210, Middlesex Regiment.
  • Date of Death:
    25th September 1916
  • Age At Death:
    23
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, France, Pier and Face 5C and 12C.
  • Place of Birth:
    Worcester, enlisted London
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of George and Mary Jane Hooper, of Hawford Bank, Worcester

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HOOPER Albert Is Named On These Memorials

Worcester St Stephen’s Church

Further Information About HOOPER Albert

A photograph of Private A.H. Hooper of Worcester can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 28th October 1916, available at Worcestershire Archives.

The following information has been researched by Geoff Hill:
1911 Census
5 St. Stephens Street, Barbourne
Albert Hooper, aged 18, beer bottler
At the same address: George (father), police pensioner, mother, 3 brothers and 4 sisters.

15 Company Machine Gun Corps was a component of the 5th Division. In 1916 this Division was engaged in the Battle of the Somme, which commenced on 1st July. The Battle of Morval, part of the Battle of the Somme, was fought between 25th and 28th September. This engagement was an attack by the British Fourth Army on the villages of Morval, Gueudecourt and Lesboufs held by the German 1st Army.

Albert Hooper has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Thiepval Memorial.

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