Midshipman George (aka Paul) HOPCRAFT was born in Portsmouth in 1900. Whilst aged 16, was serving on board HMS Queen Mary when it was sunk on 31st May 1916 during the Battle of Jutland. HMS Queen Mary had a compliment of 60 officers and 1.215 men, only 9 were saved.  Paul Hopcraft is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

He is commemorated on the Bishops Cleeve War Memorial, the Southam War Memorial and the Cleeve Hill (St Peter's Church) War Memorial.

His parents, George Paxton Hopcraft and Mrs Mildred Florence Hopcraft, lived at Old Gable House, Southam, near Cheltenham.

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Gloucestershire Graphic" on 10 June 1916.

Annabelle Strutt