William Hopkinson was killed in action at Ypres, on October 31st, 1914, at the age of 30 years, whilst serving as a Rifleman in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps.
On completing his technical education, he had charge, from 1907-9, of the crushing, amalgamating and vanning house of the Moose River Gold Mines, Nova Scotia. From 1910 to 1914 he was engaged as assistant assayer, and latterly as head assayer to the Glasgow Goldsmiths Company, Glasgow. He enlisted as a rifleman in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps soon after the outbreak of hostilities.
Mr. Hopkinson was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1912, and was transferred to Associateship in 1914.
Vol. 24, Trans IMM 1914-15, p.507
