Name
Arthur Hope
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
02/11/1944
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
14205754
Royal Scots
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY
II. D. 12.
Netherlands
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
He was born and resident in Hertfordshire and had worked for Messrs M. & F.O. Foster, the Hitchin Builders, as a carpenter. He joined the Royal Scots Regiment in 1941 with the Service Number 14205754 and went to France three days after D-Day. He was in the 8th Battalion of the Royal Scots which was part of the 44th (Lowland) Brigade in the 15th Infantry Division of VIII Corps.
He was killed in Northwest Europe almost certainly in the vicinity of the Nederrijn.
He was buried in Plot 2, Row D, Grave 12 in the Nederweert War Cemetery in the Netherlands. The cemetery is 21 kms southeast of Eindhoven.
His parents were Mr and Mrs Percy Hope of Bramble Bank, Bedford Rd, Holwell.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, ‘Orders of Battle 1939-45’ by H.F. Joslen, ‘Victory in the West’ by L.F. Ellis, Herts Pictorial dated 21st Nov 1944
