Acting Staff Sergeant Colin
HOPGOOD
1892740
15 December 1939 Enlisted
at Winterbourne into the Royal Engineers, Territorial Army
Posted
to 11th Chemical warfare Training Battalion
12 October
1940 Posted to 4th
Chemical Warfare Group
31 August
1942 Transferred
to the Army Air Corps
Posted to 2nd
Glider Pilot Regiment
Promoted to Acting
Corporal
05 May
1943 Promoted
to Acting Sergeant
01
November 1943 Granted War
Substantive Sergeant
29
December 1943 Appointed Acting
Staff Sergeant
-- --------- 1944 Posted to No. 1 Wing Glider Pilot regiment
05 June
1944 Enplaned
U.K. (Brize Norton-Oxfordshire-)
06 June 1944 Deplaned
North West Europe and killed in Action
Medals :
1939-45
Star
France
& Germany Star
Defence
Medal
War Medal
1939-45