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| File Reference |
24SP3730
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| Name |
John Hopkins |
| Gender |
male |
| Address detail |
| Street |
Corvoderra, Dooleeg, Ballina
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| County |
Mayo
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Address detail |
| Street |
Lower Knox Street, Ballina
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| County |
Mayo
|
| Country |
Ireland
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| Address detail |
| Street |
51 Regent Street, Loughboro, Leicestershire
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| Country |
England
|
| Address detail |
| Street |
500 Camp Grazeley, Reading, Berkshire
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| Country |
England
|
| Address detail |
| Street |
20 Seymour Road, Chalvey, Slough, Buckinghamshire
|
| Country |
England
|
| Address detail |
| Street |
14 St. Muredach's Terrace, Ballina
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| County |
Mayo
|
| Country |
Ireland
|
| Address detail |
| Street |
The Hostel, Dundee Road, Peterborough, Northamptonshire
|
| Country |
England
|
| Address detail |
| Street |
17 Mount Assumpta, Ballina
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| County |
Mayo
|
| Country |
Ireland
|
| Address detail |
| Street |
10 Towngate, Hipperholme, Halifax, Yorkshire
|
| Country |
England
|
| Address detail |
| Street |
115 Hyde Park Road, Halifax, Yorkshire
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| Country |
England
|
| Address detail |
| Street |
65 Saville Park Street, Halifax, Yorkshire
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| Country |
England
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| Date of birth |
1899
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| Date of death |
1975-08-14
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| Associated files in MSPA |
24A1314;
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| Related files |
19942 subject's National Army service number;
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| Civilian occupation |
Motor Driver;
|
| Easter rising service |
No |
| Organisation |
Irish Republican Army |
| Rank |
Private
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| Unit |
4 Battalion
|
| Company |
C Company
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| Brigade |
North Mayo Brigade
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| Commanding Officer(s) |
Eamon Gannon; Seamus Kilcullen
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| National Army Service Number |
19942
|
| Organisation |
Óglaigh na hÉireann/National Forces |
| Rank |
Private
|
| Brigade |
Motor Transport Corps
|
| National Army Service Number |
19942
|
| Pension Claim |
Yes |
| Award Pension |
Yes |
| Army Pensions Act 1923/1953 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1924 |
Yes |
| Grade |
A |
| Notes |
Awarded 5 and 1/6 years service for pension purposes in 1926
|
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1934 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1949 |
No |
| Digital file |
Scanned/digital copy24SP3730 John Hopkins.pdf
Scanned/digital copy24A1314 John Hopkins.pdf |
| File dates |
16 December 1924 - 16 August 1993
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| Subject Information |
File relates to John Hopkins' receipt of a military service pension in respect of his service in the periods between 1 April 1920 and 30 September 1923 with the IRA and National Forces during the War of Independence, Truce period and Civil War. Applicant also claimed unsuccessfully for service in the periods between 1 April 1918 and 31 March 1920.
John Hopkins claims membership of the Irish Volunteers from 1918. During the War of Independence John Hopkins claims that he took part in arms raids and carried/delivered despatches. He also states that he took part in the IRA capture of Enniscrone Coastguard Station (1920) and an attack on a RIC patrol in which a Sergeant Armstrong was killed (1920). John Hopkins joined the National Army in May 1922 and served throughout the subsequent Civil War. He was discharged time expired from the Defence Forces on 26 March 1924 while serving at the rank of Private.
File includes: material relating to subject's National Army and Defence Forces service record; signed handwritten statements regarding claimant's service from Garda Siochana Michael Walsh, Garda Siochana Sergeant William Hopkins and Garda Siochana Michael Deane; undated unsigned handwritten notes [of evidence given by John Hopkins before the Board of Assessors, Military Service Pensions Act, 1924; original signed handwritten and copy typed correspondence and related documentation (23 September - October 1970) involving john Hopkins and the Department of Defence regarding the difficulty cashing pension cheques/warrants facing John Hopkins during a bank strike in Ireland at that time; material relating to the settlement and closure of John Hopkins' service pension account following his death on 14 August 1975 - material relating to surviving relatives closed; and material relating to the awarding of a widow's allowance to Elizabeth Hopkins from 1975 onwards; and material relating to the settlement and closure of Elizabeth Hopkins' widow's allowance following her death on 7 June 1993 - material relating to surviving relatives closed.
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