{"id":10752,"date":"2015-03-04T09:08:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T14:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10752"},"modified":"2015-03-04T09:08:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T14:08:28","slug":"first-rmr-killed-in-action-private-hopey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/first-rmr-killed-in-action-private-hopey\/","title":{"rendered":"First RMR Killed in Action: Private Hopey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>Thursday, March 4, 1915<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>In trenches Rue Petillon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: <em>\u201cSlight shelling by German \u201877\u2019 guns about noon.\u00a0 Had the first man killed in trenches by sniper.\u00a0 Work begun to strengthen the line.\u00a0\u00a0 No\u2019s 1, 2, and 3 Companies in front line, beginning from right, No. 4 Coy. in support in dugouts opposite Battn. H.Q. about 250 yards in rear.\u00a0 Continuous sniping at night from fixed rifles from German line.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201cShelling each noon was a feature of this trench tour, and snipers, both by day and night, interrupted the construction and repair work on which the men of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> were employed&#8221; [2]<\/p>\n<p>The Battalion history erroneously names the first man killed in action as \u201cPte. J.P. Rattigan.\u201d \u00a0<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[3]<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0In fact Rattigan\u2019s death occurred two weeks later, on March 18th.\u00a0 The man killed in action on March 4<sup>th<\/sup> was Pte. Edmund E. Hopey, a 21 year old American from, Dorchester, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10753\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 248px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/04-Mar-15.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10753 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/04-Mar-15-248x300.png\" alt=\"22750 Private Edmund Eugene Hopey\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">22750 Private Edmund Eugene Hopey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Edmund Eugene Hopey<\/strong> was born June 25<sup>th<\/sup>, 1893, the only child of George Allen Hopey and his wife Ida Tedella (nee Corey) of 13 Granite Avenue, Dorchester, Mass., U.S.A.\u00a0 He was educated there and was a carpenter by trade.\u00a0 He joined the 8<sup>th<\/sup> Massachusetts Militia at Cambridge, Mass. on May 6<sup>th<\/sup>, 1914, but after the outbreak of war he went to St. John, N.B. and offered his services and was accepted for service with the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force on Aug 17<sup>th<\/sup>, 1914.\u00a0 He is said to have met his death while \u201ccovering a parapet.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 He is buried at Le Trou Aid Post Cemetery, Fleurbaix, France.<\/p>\n<p>Capt. George T. Jones of the 8<sup>th<\/sup> Massachussets\u00a0 Militia wrote: \u201cWhile he was connected with this company (A) he proved himself reliable, quiet and an earnest worker and one whom I was sorry to lose.\u201d\u00a0 Captain Curry of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battn. wrote to his mother,\u00a0 speaking highly of his bravery in the trenches at Ypres. \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, March 4, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089700.jpg\">http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089700.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>[2]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 R.C. Featherstonhaugh, <em>The Royal Montreal Regiment 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion C.E.F. 1914-1925<\/em>, Montreal, The Gazette, Printing Co., Ltd., 1927, pg. 30.<\/pre>\n<pre>[3]\u00a0\u00a0 Ibid.<\/pre>\n<pre>[4]\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=pv&amp;GRid=95128345&amp;PIpi=65069531\">http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=pv&amp;GRid=95128345&amp;PIpi=65069531<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>[5]\u00a0\u00a0 Ibid.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, March 4, 1915 In trenches Rue Petillon The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cSlight shelling by German \u201877\u2019 guns about noon.\u00a0 Had the first man killed in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-day-in-rmr-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}