Military Sopers, British Army; Some odd notes in approximate date order; . 1600; 1700; 1800; '41; '51; '61; '71; '81; '91; Boar War; '01; '11; WW1; WW2
Imperial War Museum; 47+1 results from 2017 search of website's database; 5 groups useful, most of 47 verbal records of pacifists, referencing Rev Donald Soper; 1) W Soper, Lance Corp, Reserve Regt, cavalry, 4 letters; 2) J K Soper's memoir as WW2, POW in Rifle Brigade; 3) Leonard Soper of SA & HMS Tamar, POW Japan, 2 photos; 4) R Soper's sketch 7 dau Eillen's figurine; 5) Henry William Soper, Army Catering Corps item from Italy 1946; 5) Capt Sopper letter from Prince of Wales to regretting he'd missed their last hunt as all hunting had been stopped on Western Front
6-8 Sopers metioned in muster records of the 100 year War, below : from www.medievalsoldier.org
John Sopere, a man-at-arms, on an expedition 'Keeping of the Sea', 1372 TNA_E101_31_32 m3; from Muster roll database : [The French controlled the English Channel for the first time since 1340 after English fleet of 40-50 vessels commanded by John of Hastings was badly defeated by Castilian fleet supporting the French who were besieging the city. At Battle of La Rochelle, June 1372, 8,400 men captured but their lives pardoned] : image on right
William Soper Esquire; a man-at-arms under Thomas Leget; Commander, Lord Thomas Berkeley; Activity; Keeping of the Sea, 1404 : TNA_E101_43_32, m5; from Muster roll database : [speculate this might have been William Soper of Southampton (c1390s-1459), an MP by 1414 & became Major & 'keeper of the kings ships' biog] : [1404 The French took several castles in Guyenne] : [an English vassal region, capital, Bordeaux] : [Henry IV only able to respond by sending Lord Berkeley, with a small force] : [Thomas Leget esq lost Plymouth trading ships to Spanish 1402]
Richard Soper an archer in a naval expedition, Commander Sir Thomas Carrew, 1417; TNA_E101_48_14 m2; from Muster roll database [Henry V & 10,000 men sail for France, besieged & took Caen 19 Sept : In Oct Argentan, Alencon & Bayeaux captured]
William Soper, a yeoman / valettus; rank, archer lead by Stephen Haytfeld, Stephen; Commander, John, Duke of Bedford; Expedition to France 1420; from Muster roll database TNA_E101_49_36 m1 : [Henry V reaches Troyes, 20 May a treaty signed by mentally incompetent French King Charles VI, making Henry heir & regent of France (Charles does not seem to know who Henry is). 1 June Henry m.Catherine, Charles' daughter, honeymoon laying siege to Sens. With Philip of Bourgogne lay siege & take Melun with 20,000 men. 1 Sept parade into Paris, spend Christmas at the Louvre, a garrison of 500 left & Henry rides north, 6 Jan at Rouen, returning home end Jan]
John Sopes, an archer under Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Worcester on expedition to France 1421 TNA_E101_50_1 m2; from Muster roll database
Thomas Soparo?, an archer under leader Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, Garrison Rouen gates 28 May 1430; from Muster roll database
Piers Soppe a man-at-arms foot under leader Lord John Talbot, commander Sir William Peyto, Garrison, Neufchatel de Lincourt 1 Jul 1434; from Muster roll database
Peter Soper a man-at-arms in the garrison detachment at siege of St Denis? 18 Aug 1435; from Normandy Garrison database [The French re-took St Denis June 1435, late Aug 600 English & Burgundians laid siege to to St Denis, after damaging the walls with cannon they attacked across the neck high moat but were repulsed, over 80 died. The King of France failed to relieve the siege & it surrendered 4 Oct]
William Sopper an archer under leader Sir Richard Veer; activity 'Garrison creu' at Verneuil 27 Dec 1448; from Normandy Garrison database : [100 years War, ending 1430's-1453 as English lost ground steadily, Henry VI accepted truce of Tours. English were driven from Le Mans Mar 1448 : a Siege de Verneuil, Jul�Aug 1449]
a Sopper recorded in Militia in Houndsborough Hundred, Somerset, 1569 : scan for sale www.theoriginalrecord.com
Thomas Soper, commission to be ensign to Capt Nichols in the Duke of Albemarle's regiment, 13 Oct 1673 [pay to view document] : www.british-history.ac.uk
Soper's company to disembark Portsmouth with Captains Lee's & Fitz-James company in the battalion under the command of ...? : Charles II papers, [pay to view document] 1678 (pub1913)
Capt Soper, pass for, of Col Legge's regiment, company of..... [pay to view document] : www.british-history.ac.uk
Capt Soper & Co 'payee' : 'repayment of loan' �56 1s 8d, 22 Jul 1679 : 1 of 1,260 people (almost all with 1st name : dates mostly May>Dec 1679) with �200,000 in registered loans or money due for paying for uniforms or quartering, in '2nd Disbandment Act' ; Charles II unable to disband his army 31 Jul 1678, as he did not have enough money from a poll tax due : Loans for 8% but [believe] this list was treasury warrants, paper promises to pay, not payment, many weren't : www.british-history.ac.uk
Major Soper�s company of the Right Honorable Lord Dartmouth�s Regiment of Fusiliers at the Tower of London. Soper advertised guinea reward for return of John Barnes, a well fed Cheshire man 27, who ran away from the colours & stole �5 from a gentleman. Uniform red coat, lined in yellow & brass buttons 24 Mar 1687 address London Gazette scan
a Soaper on p.137, 'English Army Lists & Commission Registers, 1661-1714' pub1894 : GoogleBooks.com
Soaper late of the Royal Artillery. Studied a short time at the Leipzig .... [another snippet in book] John Soaper a lay-vicar of Westminster & composer, b.1743.... : British Musical Biography pub 1897 ...... GoogleBooks.com
William Soper a labourer of Sidmonton, chosen by lottery from the 30 elligible men of Sidmonton to serve in the North Hants Militia, Kingsclere Division. One of ten men from the Kingsclere Hundred [ 1 in 33 of the 340 men there]. 16 Jul 1759 at Crown Inn [now 'George & Horn'] : This was during the Seven Years War, to serve in England - To Bristol, 1760 guarding French prisoners, then to Bideford, Devon. Wintered nr Newbury. Spent 1761 in Berks & embodied to Dec 1762: from Kingsclere Forum
Allen Soper of Plymouth, a private in attached detachment of 15 marines on HMS Preston (50) landed on Lighthouse Island in Boston Harbour in July 1775 : Kingsclere Forum : [no Allen in igi/parish records]
Thomas Soper, boat builder of Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, Will of 1793. PROB 11/1238 : A2A.org.uk
Robert Soper (c1741-) Serjeant, age 52, 17 years service [so joined c.1776]; R10 [signed for 10y?] 20 Jun 1793 Bodily infirmities; rheumatic pains & other, born.Ugborough, Devon, a husbandman; Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner; Registers of Soldiers Who Served in Canada, 1743-1882 source : [see Waterloo 1815] (1741-)
William Soper (c1764-?), Private 10th Hussars 1797-1814, labourer b.Hampshire in Spanish campaign 1813-14; discharged aged 33, after 16�y army record : The National Archives, Kew. Cavalry of the Line record, WO 97/125/46
William Soper (c1779-) Serjt 3rd Foot, Reg Duke of Gloucester; served 10y 170d; [so b.c1779 & enlisted c.Jan 1798]; Discharged age 29, 26 Nov 1808 unfit, Lameness from rheumatism; 10y 6m service; 1y 6m Private, Corporal 4y & Serg 5y; pay 9d per day; army record; [if 1st battalion; Carolina to Jamaica 1782; Eng 90; France 93-5; 95 West Indies; 1802 Eng; Germany 05, Kent 06; Madeira 07; Lisbon 08 & entered Spain; 2nd Batt mostly London];
Edward Soper will. Jul 1800 Foreign Parts '70rd Reat', [70th Regiment of Foot?] Admin; London Probate Index
Michael Soper (c1780-?), labourer enlisted age 23, Pvt, South Devon Militia 9 Aug 1803; b.Oakhampton, Dev : Left 24 Feb 1814, after 10�y, paralysis in left leg from fall when on duty at Huddersfield 1813; 5ft 7�in; brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion : [lost link]
Henry Soper witness at the old Bailey, 24 Apr 1805, 'I am an East-India labourer, and a soldier in the first battalion & a private watchman to Mr Roystan, of Clerkenwell parish' [see London Notes] : www.oldbaileyonline.org
Robert Soper of 15th Light Dragoons m.Susanna Lawrence, 10 Dec 1805 at Melcombe Regis, St Mary; Susanna signed 'x'; witnesses; R. Cole, Mary Marsh : [Robert b.Twickenham c1781 in 15th Dragoons 1805-15]
In 1806 the 21 enlistment contract reduced to 7y from 21y (in a Napolionic War enlistment push) & increased the bounty to �18 12s (over a years pay); by 1812 the 21y option returned with an extra �5 5s bounty, most took it William Soper, private in the Dorset Militia, substitute for Thomas Thompson of Poole. His wife Ann Soper, received a relief order 21 Apr 1806 & their child Ann (17 months) : Parish of Lewes, St John sub castro : www.a2a ref PAR412/36/1/1 : more relief paid 22 Nov 1895 when another child William Soper was 4 days [other payments see 1810 & 19 Feb 1811 when James Soper was 1 month old]
Matthew Soper of Sidbury militiaman for Joseph Bedloe; �1 14s 8d at 1s 4d/wk from 25 Mar 1807 to 23 Dec 1807. Fordington Poor Law; Thomas Pickard esq & William Morton Pitt esq agreed this 12 Jan 1808
? Soaper was serving in the Salisbury Volunteers when his son Abraham Soaper, with no family was residing: St Edmund, Wilts & was paid 1 shilling 6 pence per week by the Salisbury Overseers of the Poor 1808 Wiltshire & Swindon Record Office : ref G23/1/122 www.a2a
W H Souper & H. des Forges, paymasters at Taormina & Messina, Sicily. Regiment of Chasseurs Britanniques. Account book 1808-1810 from The National Archives, Kew. [presume father of W H Souper 1818 below] : [connection? a Mr J Souper officer in charge of the Commissariat department, Boar War]
John Soper (1714-) ; 84th Regiment of Foot; admission 21 Dec 1764 age 50; service 27y : [so joined c1737 army]; worn out; a weaver b.Salisbury; Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner; Registers of Soldiers Who Served in Canada, 1743-1882 source : [84th Reg served entirely in India 1759-65 Then re-raised for Canada from Scottish soldiers from 7y War, for Am Rev 1775�84' wiki]
Alexr Soper (1777-) [Alexander Soper] Private, total service 6 Dec 1810; b.Okehampton, Devon; age 33; Paralysis by which he has lost the use of his thigh & leg from a fall on duty; 6d per day; labourer 5ft 7�, brown, grey, fresh complexion; Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner; Registers of Soldiers Who Served in Canada, 1743-1882 source : [in Dev, not linked (checked igi)]
George Soper (1797-?) nr.106, 7th Hussars 1813-1842; b.Battersea, Lon, baker, to Royal Marines, Chatham, Kent 13 Aug, age 16 to 11 Aug 1815 under age; To 7th Hussars age 20, Maidstone 25 Jul 17, 2s 6d presented; Imprisoned Sep 23 (18d); With army of occupation, France, Dec 17 - Nov 18; Promoted Corp 1833 (333d); Reduced to Pvt Feb 34; Canada from Jun 38; prison Feb 39 (3w), Aug 39 (4w) & Jan 39 (9w); unfit for service, chronic rheumatism & catach? from length of service, aggravated by climate of Canada for the last 4y; Discharge Montreal approved 15 Jun 1842; Furthur service 1 Jul 1842-13 Sep 1842 (75d) [to get home]; good & sufficent soldier, trustworthy; age 45, 5ft 9�", light (/sandy) hair, blue (/grey) eyes, fair complexion army record : [not vis igi; not vis '51cen]
Robert Soper (c1788-?), of Anderson, [nr Blandford Forum, Dorset] a butcher, aged 25, 5ft. 9in. high, grey eyes, dark hair, fair complexion was duly enrolled to serve in the Dorset Local Militia, Eastern Battalion, but was absent from the 1811-13 annual exercise & therefore deemed a deserter [with many others] : from the Salisbury and Winchester Journal 4 July 1813 : [see Dorset Notes 1789 for possible birth] : [?3 Robert Sopers at Waterloo below 2 Hussars & 1 Dragoon, 1b.Hants; 1 b.Devon & remainer in 10th Hussars]
John Soper b.15 Aug 1814 [British failed to recapture Fort Erie that day abt.220 died] Seems the force has Canadians; "The Yankees did invade us; To kill and to destroy; Come all ye bold Canadians; Enlisted in the cause; Being all united; This is the song we'll sing; Success onto Great Britain; And God save the King" wiki
Capt Souper fought a duel with pistols, on Pennington Common [Lymington] Hants, 15 Apr 1814, it left Lieut Dieterich mortally wounded,. The Capt arrested & charged with murder, later reprieved, but public outcry meant dueling banned in British Army. [Perhaps William Heny Souper (1775-?), b.W.Indies & an officer in a W.Indies penal regiment 1806 & in Eng by 1800?]
Frederick Soper soldier of George St, London & wife Margaret, bpt. son Joaicam Frederick Soper; 20 Aug 1815, by the Curate at St Luke, Chelsea, Lon scan; Parish Records
Robert Soper 15th (or Kings) Regiment of Hussars), in Men of the Battle of Waterloo 1815 : more info from military-genealogy.com : [Dragoons became Hussars 1807, as 15th (The King's) Reg of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars). In Peninsula War 1808-14. 3 squadrons landed Ostend, from Cork, 19 May. 1 sqdr behind Hougoumont & the other 2 supporting infantry squares on the ridge; 28 killed, 50 wounded from 300-330, After Waterloo in peace time army of occupation til May 1816, involved in Peterloo 1819 history-of-15th-hussars]
Robert Soper Pvte, 1st Dragoon Guards, enlisted 9 Apr 1800; WO25 ref.887 scan
Robert Soper 10th Royal Reg of Hussar, in Men of the Battle of Waterloo 1815 [seem odd that 2 or 3 Robert Sopers on horses at Waterloo, presume not the same Robert on secondment?; perhaps mixed above as both 1st & 15th Dragoons] : [10th (Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars) fought in Peninsular war & at Waterloo]
Ensign William H Souper York Chasseurs promoted to Lieutenant 2 Jan 1818. (Cadet T Richardson from the Royal Military College replaces him) : from The Edinburgh Advertiser : [see Dorset Notes 1789 for possible birth] [The York Chasseurs, a penal regiment, formed 1813 from Irish deserters was permanently assigned to the Caribbean. 'Efficient with a happy officer corp but decemated by tropical fever & desertion'. After the Napoleonic Wars, arrived at Quebec from Jamaica to disband as colonisers, 24 Aug 1819.] : [presume the son of W H Souper 1808 of Chasseur Reg above] : [a William H Souper died 1819 'age 90', grave Trinidad and Tobago. If correct, too old to be father or son]
Colonel Robert Souper Howard (1818-1881). English soldier, b.9 Sept Harwich, England, son of Colonel William Souper & Emily Howard. They went to Calais, France to educate sons & to seek better fortune. Joined Chilean Army as Captain before the Pacific War, 3 Apr 1879. At naval battle of Angamos. Part of Chief of the Army's Staff. At battles of Pisagua (2 Nov 1879), Dolores (19 Nov), Los Angeles, Alto de la Alianza & San Juan, where he died 13 Jan : Grave of Roberto Souper (1818-1881) Ingles por nacimiento, chileno por el amor. Muri� como h�roe al defender el honor de Chile : from answers.com : Picture of Roberto Souper.
A Soper & Caroline Soper (assume separately) married in Greece in 1818-64 military marriages list; from findmypast
Joseph Soper (c1799-) a soldier b.Devon to India 1819, m.Ann McGlaran, St Mary Church, St George Fort, Madras abt.23 Dec 1823. Returned 1835 : [from his London workhouse interview 1842]
Charles Soper (/Loper) Private, of HM 4th Light Dragoons, sailed to India on The 'Duke of York', Troop 6 Dec 1821; 1 of 2 ships taking the regiment. Left Romford Barracks, 3am, marched to Tilbury. Eng>Bombay on Duke of York, 31 Dec 1821 to 17 May 1822, trans-shipped at Bombay 21 May 1822, then by small craft 250m N to Gulf of Cambay & marched 50m N to Kaira. Invalided; to Troop 2 Jan 1824 embarked 'Upton Castle' Bombay India>Eng 20 Jan 1828 [recorded Souper]; Regiment lost 450 to fever in 4 years there, returning to England 1842 : http://shadowsoftime.co.nz/dukeyork.html [On the eve of leaving, 147 volunteers joined from the 18th/19th Light Dragoons, just disbanded in Ireland] 4th Dragoon record
Herbet Soper 'Burnt soldiers documents' on microfilm WO 363/S 1830 from A2A.org.uk [no Herbert in '41cen]
Walter W Soper 'Burnt soldiers documents' on microfilm WO 363/S 1830 from A2A.org.uk [no older Walter in '41cen]
Wilfrid Soper 'Burnt soldiers documents' on microfilm WO 363/S 1831 from A2A.org.uk [no Wilfred in '41cen]
Lieut Soper killed, part of The English Brigade (nearly all it's British officers killed or wounded) defending Oporto, Portugal. Seige went on with vigour 29 Sept an attack by Don Miguel's [Royalist] army repulsed. The brunt of the action fell on the British & French auxiliaries in Don Pedros service [civil war; ex King Pedro inside [with French & UK support) v. King Miguel despotic younger brother, Miguelites defeated 1833] : [a UK naval squadron there under HMS Orestes, so perhaps Soper a navy lieut?] ; in 'The Bristol Mercury (Bristol, England),' (pub.) 6 Oct 1832, from newspapers.bl.uk
James Soper 1833 : Army Deserters (1828-1840) : full record pay per view from findmypast.com
Charles Soaper (1818-?) Private nr.1470, 67th & 23rd Regiment of Foot 1836-61: labourer, b.Monxton, Andover, Hants, age 18y 1m [so b~Apr 1818]: 5ft 6�in; fresh complexion; grey eyes; dark brown hair; trade labourer: Enlisted Private 67th Regiment of Foot 18 May 1836 (6y 14d): Transferred 1 Jun 1842; 23rd Foot (7y 61d)
: Transferred 1 Aug 1849 Royal Canadian of Rifles ;(11y 324d): Discharged 9 Jul 1861; at Montreal 15 May 61; age 43y 1m; after 25y 14d service; 23y 4m abroad (1y 4m West Indies); 21y Canada); very good conduct, with 5d for good conduct; twice in Regiment's default book; Intended residence Kingston CW, [England crosssed out?] army record : [The RCR's depot in Kingston, Ortario, so assumed got land grant & stayed there]
Benjamin Soper (c1819-?), Private nr1018, 3rd Bat, West Indies Regiment of Foot 1837-59; Born Africa; Enlisted 17 May 1837 Private 1st West Indies Reg; Black hair, black eyes, black complexion; Enlisted 1st Batt; 24 May 1837 (3y 198d); In Africa 6y 242days; In West Indies 15y 46days; Transferred 3rd West India Reg 1 Dec 1840 - 31 Jan 1845 (4y 62d); resigned; 3rd West India Reg 1 Feb 1845 - 28 Feb 1859 (14y 28d) army record
Worldwide Army Index, 1841 from findmypast
1 soldier in 1841 UK main census (& 9 abroad in British Army, Worldwide Index), but 'a pensioner' might have been? Seems he lived outside Hants in 1820's?
Benjamin Soper nr.1013 3rd Bn, West India Regt. at Sierra Leone; British Army, Worldwide Index 1841 (census) scan Sierra Leone : [See 1837]
Charles Soaper private nr.1075, at 67th Foot, at Drummondville, Canada : [in central Quebec wiki] : [not yet linked as no ages; & Thomas Soaper nr.1066 also in reg; nrs indicate joined together; in Hants?; '51cen neither vis as soldiers or as Soapers] : [67th (S.Hampshire) Reg from W.Indies to Canada 1840-46, then home service source]
George Soper nr.106, 7th Hussars at Montreal, Canada; British Army, Worldwide Index 1841 census scan : [1838 7th from billets in Britain sent with the King's Dragoon Guards to Canada to punish French republicans, in minor rebellion. No action as the revolt petered out but not returned England 1842 source] : [see army record]
John Sober private, at Corps of Military Labourers, at West Indies; British Army, Worldwide Index : [does 'Sober' & job indicate a native??]
Richard Soper private, at Bristol District Depot : ['51cen no military Richard & none at or nr.Bristol]
Richard Soper Pvte, nr.1539, 76th Foot, at Londonderry & Enniskillen; British Army, Worldwide Index 1841 (census) lost scan : [no age, so not linked; not obvious '51cen]
Robert Soper (c1783-?) at Sherfield upon Loddon, Hants, 58 pensioner b.Hants, Martha 47 n, Charlotte 18 n, Sarah 12 n, James 9 y : [a Robert b.5 Dec 1780 Sherfield Upon Loddon, to William & Elizabeth Usher]
Thomas Soaper private nr.1166, at 67th Foot, at Drummondville, Canada : [& Charles Soaper in reg; see above]
William Soper gunner & driver, 3rd Company, 8th Bttn, Royal Artillery at Camden Fort Canada, Buncrana, GB; '41cen; British Army, Worldwide Index 1841 (census): [coastal battery at Fort Dunree, Buncrana, Donegal, Ireland; wiki; & Camden Fort. Meagher protecting, Cork Harbur, Ire wiki; 'Fort Canada' not vis] : [no age; not linked]
- Saper private nr.2125, at Ceylon Rifle Regt, at Kandy, Ceylon : [not vis Ceylon; a native??]
William Soper m.Mary Granville 27 Dec 1827 Plymouth, Dev [Bishop's Transcripts]
William Soper of Royal Artillery & Mary Ann Soper sent 2 children at cadets to RMA, Royal Military Asylem for children of regular army soldiers
Thomas Soper (1828-?) Private nr.1248 4th Light Dragoons (Queen's Own) 1846-50; born Uckfield, Lewes, Sussex, c1828; butcher 5ft 7�in, brown hair, blue eyes, fresh complexion: Attested age 18y ; took oath Hounslow 30 March 1846, for 6 years & was paid 2s 6p; Enlisted a bounty of �5 15s 30 March 1846; sworn at Heston [Hounslow, Lon] 31 Mar: Service 31 Mar 1846-10 Jun 1850 + 14d [assumed added to get home] (4y 86d): Found unfit by medical board for further service 19 Jun 1850; An inguinal kuptihe of large size frequently causing down for which he wears a truss with benefit. But as he cannot drill? without much pain... so is brought forward for dsischarge, his compalaint appears to arise from a constitutional origin, not from any accident; : Discharge at Island Bridge, Dublin, from 4th Regt 10 Jun 1850; residence Arthur St, Chelsea, age 22y 2m; [so b~Apr 1838]; Purch retd 26 Nov 1869 army record : [from 1846 the regiment was in Ireland] : [a Thomas Soper (c1828) in '61cen at 14 Chesnut Place, Woolwich, Kent a police constable 33 b.Uckfield, Sx, Emma W 32 Tom J 7 : In '71cen (c1828) a hall porter 43, Chelsea, Lon with Mary H 44 & Tom J 17] : bpt Tm James Soper to Thomas & Emma (Wall), Deptford, 13 Nov 1853
William Soper (1828-?) Gunner & Driver 10th Battalion; Regiment of Artillery 1846-7; b.Tiverton, Dev; 5ft 7in; dark brown hair; dark brown eyes; fair complexion; trade whitesmith; Attested, age 18 [so b~Jan 1828] Woolwich, 18 May 1846; 15 Sept 1847 (1y 148d service); unfit for furthur service; conduct good; age 19y 4m; Suffered enlargement of the glands of the neck; In last May, at Purfleet attacked with severe fever, in hospital 11w. 28 Jul removed to the hospital at Woolwich where he had since remained; Exam Sep 1847; likely incapable of contributed to earn a livelihood army record : [Not linked yet]
Charles Soper Private 73rd Foot, Medal Roll, action 2nd & 3rd Kaffir Wars 1846-53 : britishmedals.us : [b.c1827 Leeds, Yorks]
Samuel Soper, b.1847, service in the Royal Marine Light Infantry, Plymouth Division, Number: 299 : Records of RMLI (Portsmouth Div) : Public Records Office ref ADM 159/61/299 : [m.Caroline Sullock 1872, E.Stonehouse, Dev]
John Soper (1829-?) Private, nr.998 1st Battalion, 101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers) 1849-68; b.Langton, Dev; 39y 1m [so b~Apr] on discharge, fresh complexion, brown eyes, light brown hair; Attested 3 Apr 1849 1st Bengal Fusiliers, Plymouth, Dev, age 20 [so b~1829]; labourer; Burnt by explosion of ammunition wagon 1857 New Delhi; Disability, phthisis pulmonalis [lung tuberculosis & wasting of body]; character exemplary; Discharged 1868; 21y service, 18y in India; Cannot contribute towards caring & livelihood; Intended residence Totnes, Dev (Stockhaven [crossed out no such place?]) army record : [see family 1846]
George Henry Soper (?-1861) Police Sergeant of The Mounted Police, Australia, earning �98 5s pa. d.7 Nov 1861. Wife Jane Newlands (? - 21 Jul 1878). children Adelaide Victoria (? - 5 Jul 1860), John (? - 2 Aug 1872) & William (? - 4 Jan 1907). from BMD records. source : presumably the Sgt Soper who was arresting people in Adelaide 1849-50 source : [often soldiers were transferred from a British Regiment in Australia? see]
Army Sopers in the 1851 census
John Soper (c1830-?) private 21unm b.Torquay, in 57 Regiment, Devon at Military District, Antony, Cornwall, '51cen
John Soper (c1831-?) 20, b.Okehampton, Devon, a private in East India Companys Depot, occupation, labourer [all privates have jobs, previous job or part time soldiers?, all on page 20 or 21] - Warley Barracks, Little Warley, Essex, Rochester dist [but that's in Kent?] 405 people under Commandant Colonel Edward Hay; scan [possibly in India 1859, see below] ancestry.com
John Soper (c1837-?) 14 trumpeter in 10th Battalion, Royal Artillery at Woolwich Barracks, Kent; b.Woolwich, Kent with gunners of the 10th Batt; 19 to 24; officers & a drummer 19 scan : [still in army '61cen] : [?a John b.c1836, father William in RA 1844 & Mary Ann]
William Soper 20 [assume soldier] at Lower Without, Garrison Tower of London, City, M.sex '51cen, b.Woodbury, Devon scan
James Soper, John Stoner & John Gregory Privates of 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, 'Gross Outrage by Soldiers', Charged with gross misconduct at Camberwell Fair the previous evening. Violent assault on Mr Leman & 2 police officers, & damaging a constable's coat. Their Paymaster, Servent gave very indifferent character reference on Stoner & Soper; Soper 20d prison; Stoner 21 days prison & 65s or 47days; Gregory 20s or 14d; in 'Morning Post' 22 Aug 1851, from news.bl.uk : scan [not vis elsewhere; ??'61cen a James 46 London policeman, but prob too old?]
John Soper (1853-?) b.1853 : service in the Royal Marine Light Infantry, Plymouth Division. Number 626 : Records of RMLI (Portsmouth Division) : Public Records Office ref ADM 159/1/311
Corp William Soper the Alma, 20 Sep 1854 [1st battle of the Crimean War (1853�6); 36k Russian beaten by 28k French, 27k Brits (2k casualties) & 7k Turks; 1st Batt, Coldstream Guards 29 casualties source]
Lewis Soper nr3632 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade slightly wounded. Minor actions at Sebastopol, 1 Sept 1855 (10 other privates of Rifle Battalion slightly & Sgt Harywood severely & only 1 or 2 from wounded from 14 other Regiments) (London Gazette 19 Sept) [62,000 British & French landed at Yevpatoria 1-6 Sept from 300 transports & 89 warships] in 'Daily News' 20 Sep; scan; & Post scan
John Soper b.1856 Totnes, Devon : Army Pensioner's Record from National Archives (scans available from findmypast) ['61cen/'71cen not obvious]
William Venner Soper b.6 Oct 1836; bpt 8 Jan 1837 44 Zion-Lady Huntingdons, Margate; '51cen errand boy 14; Private in 3rd Foot; discharged 21y later as Quartermaster Sergeant 1879; army record
John Soper private nr1803, company 1, 1st Eurpean Bengal Fusiliers, wounded 26 Aug 1857 (& 7 other that date) severely wounded ambustiom [burns?] Discharged Cured 9 Sep. Regiment list of killed & wounded 16 May to 31 Dec 1857, issued at Camp, Alum Bagh 2 Mar 1858 : (London Gazette 6 May 1858) [medal clasps for Delhi & Lucknow below : discharged 4th Bengal Reg 1859 below]
www.britishmedals.us 14 Soper 4 Sopper & 2 Soaper from Jul 2009
Charles E Souper Queen's India Cadetships: register of candidates 1858-1876 : IOR/L/MIL/9/298 : National Archives : [m.1873 biog] : [a Sir Francis Souper Bayley had Factory Records with East India Company, 1824]
Thomas Soper, Discharge Papers from East India Company's, 2nd Bengal European Light Cavalry - 1859 -1861: [Discharges were processed around this date when the Company's army was integrated with the British Army] : British Library, India Office Records : IOR/L/MIL/10/304 www.a2a
John Soper, Discharge Papers from East India Company's, 4th Bengal European Regiment : ref. IOR/L/MIL/10/312 : 1859 -1861: [Discharges were processed around this date when the company's army was integrated with the British Army] : British Library, India Office Records : IOR/L/MIL/10/312/619 www.a2a [possibly in East India Depot, Essex, in 1851 census, b.Kent c1831]
George Sapher, 3rd Madras European Regiment : Discharge Papers 1859-1861 - British Library, India Office Records. ref. IOR/L/MIL/11/281/1466-69 [these regiments were finished & offered a transfer to the British Army, 95% of these discharge papers chose an unpensioned discharge] www.a2a
John Sopp, 2nd Bombay European Regiment, Discharge Papers. 1859-1861. India Office Records. ref IOR/L/MIL/12/285/511 www.a2a
Sergeant Soper with the Volunteer Artillery company who mustered a good force to accompany the coffin of Governer Holdsworth at Dartford as it passed the town from Torquay to Stokenham Church; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 23 May 1860, from news.bl.uk; scan
Dr Walter Soper Gervis an MD [of Ashburton Devon] to be Honorary Assistant Surgeon of 9th Devon Rifle Volunteers, 26 Apr 1860; Bulletins & Other Intelligence; from Google Books : [Surgeon General later] & in 'Morning Post' 28 May scan
a Soper recorded in list of sailors & marines on board HMS Magicienne, 1860 in The China Wars & received the China medal : scan for sale theoriginalrecord.com [16-gun frigate (1848-64)]
George Soper b.Hannington, Basingstoke, Hants c.1860; Private nr.8255. 3rd Btn, Militia, Hants Reg 1878-96; resident Whitchurch, Andover, Hants; labourer for Mr.Brinley, Whitchurch (former master Mr.Westler, Hannington); 5ft 3�in, fresh complexion, greyish blue eyes, dark brown hair; Attested Militia at Winchester Apr 1878; age 18y [so b~1860], Received 10s bounty; Re-engaged 'conjointly'; 1891; present (each May) '91/2/3/4 & '95; [assume annual camps]; Discharged Apr 1896; army record [Not obvious '81/'91/'01cen. Odd if in local militia, as wrong surname would be tricky]
George Soper (1840-?) nr.166 Driver, B Battery, 28th Brigade, Royal Artillery 1860-75; b.St Georges, Lon; 5ft 4in, age 35y (on leaving); fresh complexion; hazel eyes; light brown hair; trade blacksmith; Attested 12 Jan 1860 Lon, age 19y to Depot Brigade (195d); Transferred 14th Brigade 26 Jul 60; 4d in garrison cells 16 Oct 63; Appointed shoeing smith 18 Oct 67; Discharged 14 Dec 1875 Colchester age 35 [so b~1840]; Found unfit for further service with injury caused while riding at Woolwich Jul 1874; 15y 351d service (abroad 9y 8m, India 9y 5m); conduct has been good, possesses 1 good conduct badge; Intended residence Colchester army record : [not vis '81cen/'91cen; not b.St George in '51cen]
British Worldwide Army Index, 1861 from findmypast
Army Sopers in the 1861 census
Charles Soaper, pvt nr.1470,Royal Canadian Rifles; British Army, Worldwide Index 1861 : [b.c1818, Monxton, Andover, Hants, age 18y; Enlisted 1836 (6y 14d): Discharged Jul 1861 army record]
D Soper (c1822-?) private soldier 39, 2nd Battalion, stationed at Grenadier Guards, Wellington Barracks, St Margaret, & Westminster [by Buckingham Palace] Bat. possibly headed by Captain Philip Smith, with around 637 names. He was b.Winchester, Hants : Ancestry.com
[see David's biog above]
George Soper (c1832-?) Royal Marines, lodger in household of Francis Prout 51 an innkeeper, wife, twins 17, bar maid & 15unm lodgers age 18-27 at 14 Fore Street, East Stonehouse, Devon. b.Plymouth, Dev : 1861 census : Ancestry.com
a Soper recorded in list of men recommended for the Good Conduct Medal. The 1st Bengal European Fusiliers, renamed 101st Royal Bengal Fusiliers, 1861 & moved from India to England : scan for sale Theoriginalrecord.com [assume John Soper, 1857]
John Soper, (c1837-?) b.Woolwich; Heacham, Kent, at Royal Artillery Regiment 10th Brigade : Portsmouth Town, Hampshire, 1 of 460 Royal Artillery soldiers & their families : '61cen [Gunner nr.591 above] : [William m.Mary Granville 1827]
Robert Soper (c1833-?) at First Battalion 60th Roy Rifles Western Heights & Citadel, Dover, at Hougham, Kent. Age 28, a private, b.Kingsclere, Hampshire,, 997 other soldiers & their families : 1861 census : Ancestry.com; [not vis '71cen]
William Soper (1842-?) age 19, b.Ireland, a soldier in 29 Foot Regiment at North Camp Farnborough, Surrey. 955 people under Brigadier General David Russell 51 b.Scotland, heading list of 955 names : Ancestry.com [William H Soper Pvt nr.484 above] : ['71cen a William H Soper 29 at Quay Lane, Holy Trinity, Dev]'
a Soper recorded in list of men recommended for the Good Conduct Medal. The 1st Bengal European Fusiliers, renamed 101st Royal Bengal Fusiliers, 1861 & moved from India to England : scan for sale Theoriginalrecord.com [assume John Soper, 1857]
Pvt Soper of Tunbridge Wells Rifles won 2 guineas at Rifle Contest of Volunteers, Margate; in 'Standard' 13 Sep 1862, from news.bl.uk; scan
Pvte Soper of the Ashburton Section, South Hams Battalion, Rifle Volunteers, Newton Abbot, made 31 hits with J R Brown, Soper missing bull in the shoot off & came 2nd; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 1 Oct 1862; scan
W Soper bandmaster in 70 strong 11th Brixham unit of 1st Devon Administrative Brigade. At grand Devon volunteer review & sham fight at Little Haldon; in 'Trewman's Post (pub.Exeter),' 12 Aug 1863, from news.bl.uk; scan
Private Soper 9th DRV took 1st prize �3 at 200yds at 5th annual competition of Devon Volunteers; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 1 Jun 1864, from scan
Edward Soper Private, nr.134 65th Regiment; Netley 679; [Reg of Foot (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding)] [a military hospital at Netley source, nr.Southampton, Hants] : [Enlisted Oct 1867] Application for discharge 17 Dec 1877; character 'bad', no good conduct badges; Service towards pension 10y 10d; Service towards completion of limited engagement 10y 42d; discharged 24 Dec 1877; Discharged after 1st period of service [so 10y signed-up]; Record WO121 Chelsea; Documents to '084' record scan; from FindMyPast [65th in India 1871 (at Agra Apr'71 when a parliament question asked if its soldiers too young, so assume tropical aclimatization problems; Secretary of War said 579 of 919 in Reg were under 20, he directed 20+ for future soldiers abroad) to 1881 when renamed 1st Bat York & Lancs Reg wiki]
Harry Soper b.1867 Greenwich, Kent : Army Pensioner's Record, from National Archives findmypast : [a Harry WW1] : [Harry m.Mary Ellen b.Ireland; m.Dublin, Ireland 1891]
George Soper (1848-?) Enlistment Date: 29 Jan 1867, Royal Marines Portsmouth Service Nr: 311. b.1848 : Records of Royal Marine Light Infantry (Portsmouth Division) Public Records Office ADM 159/61/626
Private Soper of 7th Surrey scored 17points at 200yds at Wimbledon Rifle Meet; in '' 11 Jul 1867, from news.bl.uk; scan
David Soper 47 pensioner of Grenadier Guards & Thomas Epps alias Peters 22, seaman were charged before Mr Elliott with burglariously breaking into Joshua Jones's house 1 Crescent, Southampton St, Camberwell Christmas night & stealing plate & other articles at �30. When the house was broken into, the police were called in & the prisoners were found concealed with the articles in their possession; Committed for trial. A servant returned at 12 [midnight] & found the place broken into, the place in confusion & draws ransacked. Epps tried to escape out the door carrying 18 silver spoons, 18 forks, sugar tongs, 2 gold chains, pair of bracelets, ear rings & would have struck a Mr Heath, but was prevented. PC James Aplin 186P found Soper on the top floor hidden under the bed & squares of glass removed from the back kitchen. Other articles were in swag bundles of clothing, ready to be removed. A chisel left that belonged to Rev Williams of Camberwell's. A small screw-driver found in Soper's lodgings proved they burgled Rev Williams's 20 Dec. The prisoners in Lambeth court. Other robbery cases proved against both prisoners & committed for trial; in 'London Standard' 26 Dec 1868; scan & The Times 29 Dec
Private Soper, Berks (Soper [rifle]) �5 88 points 33 shots. Wimbledon competition. Small bore breech-loading prizes 500yds, 3 minutes (8th of 9 winner 114 points 39 shots) : also a Sgt Gostage 1 Berks came 7th in breech loading comp : from Guardian Newspaper, 17 July 1869
Private Soper 14th Company of the Queens Westminster Rifle Volunteers won 3rd & a purse of �2 2s at a meeting at the Scrubs Ranges : from The Times 5 Oct 1870 192/746n
Frederick Soper (1851-?), Enlistment Date: 15 Oct 1870, b.1851, Number 312 : Records of Royal Marine Light Infantry (Portsmouth Division) Public Records Office ADM 159/1/312
John Soper 1870s Discharge www.britishmedals.us
Army Sopers in the 1871 census
Charles Soper (c1827-?) a Sergt of Carnarvon R R Militia & Chelsea Out Pensioner 44 71cen, b.Leeds, Yorkshire; at Militia Barrack, Llanbeblig, Carnarvon; Mary Soper 33, b.Bodmin, Cornwall; Mary Ann Soper 7, b.Aldershot, Hampshire; Robert James Soper 5, b.Shorncliffe, Camp, Kent; William Charles Soper 3, b.Carnavon; Frederick Henry Soper 12m, b.Carnavon, Caernarvonshire : scan : [see Charles 1846] : [Charles d.Jul>Sep 1874, age 48 & Mary d.Jan>Mar 1884 age 46, Carnarvon, Cumberland ]
Edward Soper (c1854-?) gunner royal artillery, patient 17, b.Hammersmilth, M.sx 71cen; at The Herbert Hospital, Shooter's Hill, Kidbrooke, [by Woolwich Artillery Barracks wiki] page of 25 unm men 17-30, approx 500 patients : scan [seems Edwin's become Edward : Edwin Charles b.1855 parents John & Susan family]
John Soper (c1850-?), 21unm, b.Torquay, Dev, Pvt 57th Regiment. Military District, Anthony, Cornwall, 495 people in Maker Barracks & various forts & redoubt '71cen; Page 107/10 www.freecen.org.uk
Jno Soper (c1853-?) a private RMLI 18, b.Exmouth, Dev '71cen; at North Barracks, Lower Walmer, Walmer, Kent ; (others in page of Royal Marines light infantry Privates page 'John') : scan : [??a John b.Jan>Mar 1853 St Thomas, Dev] : [assume John d.1913 a chief officer in coastguards]
Louis Soaper (c1839-?) 32 private in Rifle Brigade at 70 St James St, Dover; b.Portsmouth, wife Mary Soaper 20, Bessie Soaper 8m both b.Plymouth '71cen scan : [Rifle Brigade 1854-77; b.c1836 military record]
Samuel Soper (c1847-?) private, Royal Marines 24, b.Diptiford; at 21 Belmont St, St Andrew, Plymouth, with unemployed servants Ann Harkins, widow 33 & Caroline Sullock 30unm both b.Modbury; scan
Thomas Soaper (c1852-?) private 19, b.Arundel, Sussex; in 25th Regiment, of Port Rowner, Gosport, Alverstoke; '71cen : [HQ of 25th Reg at Fort Rowner (though source say Fort Brockhurst, Gosport) : 11 officers, 303 m & 94 f (in families) : [perhaps co-incidence but '01cen retired Lt Col of Kings Own Bourderers (25th Foot) at Guernsey, had nurse Amy Soper 21 b.Guernsey] scan]
William Soper (c1828-?) 43 private, royal marine, '71cen, at 49 George St, East Stonehouse, Dev; b.E.Stonehouse; Mary A 47 b.Loddiswell, Dev; Elizabeth J 8; Mary A 6; John S 4 all scholars, b.E.Stonehouse; 14 others in 6 households scan : [m.bef1862]
William F Soper (c1850-?) 21 Private [Royal Artillery #?] at North Barracks, Lower Walmer, Walmer, Kent; b.Weyfield? scan : [not vis '61//'81cen]
William V Soper Colour Sergeant nr.1222, 2nd Bn, 6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot; HQ at Buttevant, Ireland; location GB; British Army, Worldwide Index 1871 (census) scan
Sarah Jane Soper m.James Trick, Pte company 7513 Jul 1870 register of marriages of the Plymouth Division Royal Marines from www.britishmedals.us
Henry Soaper (1853-?) Private nr.1523, 46th Reg of Foot; 1872-3; 'His mark'; b.Andover, Hants 5ft 5in, fresh complexion, hazel eyes, brown hair, labourer, scar on right side of chin & inside of right calf; Attested 19 Oct 1872 at Westminster, age 19; service; Discharged at Aldershot 21 Mar 1873 age 19y 5m [so b~Nov 1853] (154 days): presume 17d furlough gave 171d service; good conduct, not in regimental defaulters book; Found unfit for further service; Valumlas? disease; medical at Aldershot 24 Mar, confirmed by Colonel commanding 3rd Brigade 7 Apr 1873; Intended residence Winchester army record : [Henry b.1853, Andover Thomas m.Eliza 1850 Andover]
John Soper Pvt 75th Foot, transferred from 57th Foot, 1867-71; National Archives, record nr.WO121; Applied for Discharge 7 Feb 1871; Character very bad; Discharged with ignomany 20 Feb 1871; service 4y 7d (reduced to 0y 0d) : [so joined Feb 1867]
John J Soper nr.2298 67th Brigade (100th & 109th Foot) 1871; National Archives, record nr.WO121 Chelsea; nr.2298 boy; 11th Oct; not likely to become efficient (145 days service); discharged 21 Oct 1871; no birth date, so not linked ; [so enlisted abt.Jul 1871 if say 14 then b.c1857, but several JJS's b. abt then]
Henry Soaper in discharged soldiers list 1871-9 www.britishmedals.us
John Sobers d.1873-4 Barbados, Army Returns, Deaths 1796-1880, from findmypast
Alfred Soper, Private nr.1109; Applicant SE Dist 393; Conduct fair, 1 good conduct badge; 5y 153d service [so started c.Jun 1873]; Applied 23 Nov 1878 as invalid & diischarged 29 Nov; documents to '26p' army record
Sapper Soper at presentation at SW'ern Hotel of Sgt Maj William Webber, Exeter Div, 1st Volunteer Engineers, (leaving for Lon); 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 15 Oct 1873, from news.bl.uk; scan
Sgt Soper's 'Fanny' lost in troop F's heat against Pvt Strong's 'Charley'; Pvt Strong 2nd in reg comp (8 troops); at Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry Cavalry annual 8d training at Exmouth; Judged on walking, trotting, galloping & jumping. Residents hung flags & arches of evergreen throughout town : F Troop Capt, 2 lieut, QM, Sergt Major, 2 serg (inc Soper) & 31 pvts; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 27 May 1874, from news.bl.uk; scan
James George Soper b.1874 Southampton : Army Pensioner's Record
3 Soper soldiers, who's parents were Charles & Mary on a list of about 60 children between 1805-1883, aged 5-11, listed on a 73rd Regt of Foot list, all apprenticed & discharged age 13-14. Perhaps the 73rd was paying for them?
William Soper Bombadier nr.12140 Royal Artillery, 26/2; Attested 26 Apr 1875; Discharged, time expired 29 Apr 1887; Discharge papers to 06 RRRA; page 626; Corps H/2/RA army record
Arthur Soper nr.1111 Lance Corporal ; Attested 13 Nov 1875 Discharged Cork, Ireland 12 Nov 1887, NR Mim Fus, Sec B1,1st Class APW; Discharge cause, Termination 1st period [ie after 12y] ; Pay Dist of Army Reserve 101st; Discharge Docs to OC101 R Dist : from military records
James Soper (c1855-?) of Dorchester 21, an artilleryman soldier, 5ft 8in, light brown hair, hazel eyes, fresh complexion, 'RWI' Exeter Police Charge Book 1876-78 on p.113 (so abt.1876) : [re-enlisted 1900? army record] : [& see RHA record 1900]
C E Soaper had been promoted & Lieut Sampson Plomer F Freeth took his place as Lieut of a company of Gentleman Cadets at The Royal Miltary Academy (assume Sandhurst, Berks (but poss Woolwich)) from The Times 9 June 1875
Surgeon Major Soper on an Aldershot committee on Capt Warren's new pressure cooking system for feeding the army, 10 Oct 1874. Reported 1 Dec 1875, it suggested some modifications, saying it saved time, food & fuel.. Warren also designed a campaign buscuit containing meat which was not used : from The Times 7 Jan 1876 233/746n & Guardian Newspaper, 8 Jan
William Soper seaman [1876] rushed to protect Major Hawkins, hit by a Malay spear at Perek River, [Malaysia, 'Perak War' relief force had sailed from India & China]. The blue jacket [ie marine?] shot two Malays charging from the jungle. Hawkins whispered "You can do no more for me, save yourself" & with a heavy heart Soper had to go news article 1911 of a biog of Pvt Smith of The Buffs : [Maj H L Hawkins Bengal Staff Corps killed 4 Jan 1876 Kota Lama, Malasia grave (a William C Sone & Jasper Ball Royal Marine Light Infantry from HMS Philomel [a gunboat] only others who died that day] : [no web mention visable, so perhaps Soper was Sone in the Pvt's memory?]); 180 men sent to disarm Perek village source]: [??a William 20 Corp RM at Fort Stamford, Plymstock, Dev {seems too young, but a Corp}: ??a William 26 seaman RN {so not RMLI?} at Stoke Damerel, Dev]
"Miss" Soper was about 55, she died 5 Oct at Guy's Hospital 8 Feb 1876 235/746n : Prisoners discharged 15 Feb 236/746n
C Soper (c1865-) supposed age 12y 10m. Entered Training Ship 'Exmouth' at Grays, Essex 5 Sep 1877; from Lambeth parish, Lon; 4ft 2in, 56lbs, 23�in chest; Nr on ships books 612; conduct vgood 15 Oct 1877 5th class seamanship, passed at school, swimming 5th class, band 2nd class; 10 Dec 1878 made a Gold lace boy; 5 Feb 1878 4th class; drum & fife band; 9 Apr 78 3rd class; 9 Jul 2nd class; 25 Jul 4th class at swimming; 10 Dec 1st class seamanship; 1 Jul 1879 2nd class swimming, 1st class band cornet, string & brass; 25 Mar 1880; exemplary conduct, rigger; 21 Jan 1881 rated Quartermaster; 29 Jan 1881 rated Tailors Mate ; discharged 13 Jul 1881, height 4ft 7�, 74lbs. 27in chest; to 60th Regiment scan: [Charles Valentine Soper b.1865]
Charles Soper nr.4004, 2nd Regiment, 53rd, Rifle Brigade 18799-80; Discharged 5 Jan 1880; claimed �10; 81days service; Good conduct; Registry District S Dist 2022 army record army record : [??perhaps the Charles below]
Charles Soper (1860-?) Crpl nr.2120, 2nd Battalion, East Surrey Reg 1880-8; labourer, currently with 16th Middlesex; Next of Kin, father Joseph & sister Eliza at Hounslow, Lon: 5ft 5in; chest 34�in, 126lbs, fair complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, C of E; Enlisted 20 Dec 1880 at Kingston [E.Surrey's barracks], for 6y + 6y in reserve, age 20y 2m [so b.~Oct 1860] at Houslow, London: Home service to 5 Oct 1881 (290d); India 6 Oct 1881 (2y 354d): Egypt 15 Sep 1884 (97d) : East Indies 1 Jan 1885 (3y 58d), : Discharged 28 Mar 1888 at his request on payment of �11, Service 7y 100d, no injuries/wounds/medals; 3rd certificates of education; very good conduct army record
Army Sopers in the 1881 census
Charles Soper 20unm, b.Hounslow, M.sex, Private Infantry, Grand Shaft Barracks, Western Heights, Hougham, Dover, Kent : One of 6 privates age 16-21 with an acting Lieutenant 29 source : [see 1880 record above]
Charles Soper 15 boy under training residents of TS Arethusa, Swanscombe, Kent : b.London 1881 census : ['Arethusa' wooden frigate for 250 boys, built 1849, seen action in Crimea, the last British ship to go into battle under sail. Positioned Greenhithe, opened 1874 : Replaced 1889; www.workhouses.org.uk]
Edward Soper 26 an army pensioner : &
Frederick H Soper (c1851-?) 30 Lance Sergt RMLI (Royal Marine Light Infantry) at 3 Guildford Ter, Walmer, Kent; b.Charlton, Hants [now Andover (1m NW)] '81cen Eliza E Soper 22 Lyndhurst, Hants : [Gilford Rd leads to Walmer Castle; (Oct 1878 a 700ft wide tornado at Walmer)] : [RMLI site shows his regiment all at Walmer & Chatham Barracks, Kent in '81cen & Aug 1882 reg posted to Egypt] : ['71cen not vis]
Samuel Soper 35 Cavalry Barracks, Walmer, Kent; '81cen; b.Deptford, Dev & wife Caroline Soper 40 Salcombe, Dev : [m.Caroline Sullock 1872, E.Stonehouse, Dev]
William Soper 20unm Corporal R M� "Fort Stamford" Plymstock, Dev '81cen; b.Plymouth, Dev : [a William, a gallant marine in Malaysia 1876 (but perhaps too young?) {lost link}]
William Charles Soper 13 & Frederick Henry Soper 11 scholars at Royal Military Asylum, Kings Rd, Cheltenham Terr, London, both b.Henwalia, Carnarvon, Wales '81cen [father Charles (c1827-1874) Sgt, S.Wales Borderers see]
Henry Soper (1858-?) nr.5000 3rd/4th Battalion, Rifle Brigade 1881-93; b.Hurstbourne Tarrent, Andover, Hants: labourer; 5ft 7�in; 144lbs; chest 35in; fresh complexion; brown eyes; Brown hair; C of E; 3 vaccination marks left arm [so right handed]: father Thomas of Upton, ne Andover: m.Alice Vokes, parish church, Bullington, Hants; 14 Oct 1880: Attested for 12y enlisted Holborn 12 Nov; medical 14 Nov, Reading, age 23y 6m [so b~1858]; Dublin 18 Nov 1881 (33d sick 3 Aug 83 Gonarrhiea); Home service 11 Nov 1881 to 31 Dec 1882 (1y 51d): India 1 Jan 1883 to 24 Jan 1889 (6y 24d); Home service 25 Jan 1889 to 10 Nov 1893 (4y 290d): Discharged 10 Nov 1893 (12y service); character exemplary, temperate habits army record : [Henry m.Alice Vokes 1889, Andover, Hants (bmd)]
a Soper recorded in list of Outstanding soldiers of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 1881-1901 period covers Egypt, Malta, India & South Africa : scan for sale Theoriginalrecord.com : [see] army record
a Soper recorded in list of Outstanding soldiers of the South Wales Borderers 1881-1901 : scan for sale Theoriginalrecord.com John James Arnsby Soper, gent to be Lieutenant (supernumerary). 31 Aug 1881. 21st Middlesex (Finsbury) Corps [an engineer corp?] (London Gazette 30 Aug) [see legal sopers]
Emmanuel Goding Soper, married in India 1882, military marriages list ; from findmypast : [Emanuel Soper, m.Elizabeth Ross 1873. Bengal Marriage Records, ref 144/87 . source]
George Soper discharged inefficient 22 Dec 1882, from 418 (Brigade or Reg) no Reg nr [so assume not enlistment]; Registry nr,ND.1394, C12; Royal York & Lancaster Regiment; 65th Dist (65th Reg & 84th Reg) army record
Thomas Soper Private nr.1235, 'Derbyshire Regiment' 45th Regiment Dist; (45th Reg + 95th Reg) discharged 29 Aug 1882, after 1st period AR; Registry nr.SED778; Remarks; C8 army record : [AR=Army Reserve? : perhaps '81cen Tom Soper (c1853-?) 28 1st class army reserve; bricklayers labourer, at The Dean, Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hants,
] : [Thomas m.Eliza Spicer 1877, Andover]
Frederick Soppe/Soape (1863-?) Private nr.8921/210 3rd (Militia) Bat, Berks Territorial Reg 1882-6; born & living at Buscott, Farringdon, Berks; labourer 19y 0m; 5ft 3in, fair complexion light brown hair, grey eyes, C of E, taottoos, right arm, flower & 2 leaves, 2 pairs of crossed flags, 1 pair of scissors & 1 bracelet; left arm FB, anchor & braclet; Attested for Militia 6 years [so b~1863], at Reading, 21 Jan 1882; swore 19 Jan at Farringdon; found fit 21 Jan 82; Attested to Majestrate 19 Feb Farringdon 1982; To Berks Regiment 4 Dec 1886
Walter Soper (1858-?) Gunner, nr.34764 Royal Artillery 1882-94 : 5ft 9�in; 155lbs; 36�in chest; fresh complexion; brown eyes; auburn hair; C of E; b.Amesbury, Salisbury, Wilts; [so b.c.Sep 58]; a gardener; Half brother, Joseph Truckle, 2 Princes Gate, Hyde Park, Lon; Attested 7 Sep 82 at Fort Rowner, Gosport; age 24y 0m; Singapore 83 (3y); Ceylon 86 8y; Columbo 90; Discharged 6 Sep 94; 12y service, v.good conduct; temperate army record; [perhaps also Army Pensioner's Records] : [Walter b.Jan>Mar 1857 Amesbury, Wilts to Robert Moses Soper & Harriet Truckle m.1854 Amesbury]
Private Soper an excellent comique, closed the show giving 'Lord Lovell', 'The Tetotal Society' & another song which brought down thunders of applause; Fri eve entertainment in North Camp school room by 2nd Rifle Brigade, proceeds to Pvt Patrick's widow [annual camp?]; 'Aldershot Military Gazette' 1 Sep 1882 : [no other 2nd R B]
Pvt William Soper (1859-?) E.Surrey Reg> b.Henley on Thames, Oxon; a carman; 5ft 4�in; 121lbs; chest 34in; good physical development; sallow complexion; hazel eyes; brown hair; C of E; 2 dots & L on back of left forearm; 2 scars on back of head; Parents Alfred & Betsey & younger sister Elizabeth, Green Lane St, Brixton; Attested for 12y, age 24 at Kingston Oct 1882 (246d); Home service Oct 83 (2�y); Chatham Sep 84; sick 15d dyspepsia; HMS Serapis Nov 85 to India (3y 11d); Naniterbad 86 (46d sick palpitatioins); Allahabad 22d sick; Darjeeling 87; Allahabad 87 50d sick; HMS Malabar Nov 88; Discharged Netley Dec 88, medically unfit (disability); Character fair; 29 Seymour Place, Fulham S Road, London (service 5�y) army record : [Alfred James m.Elizabeth Haley 1885, Fulham]
H Soper gunner nr.33434; Scottish? Royal Artillery; Discharged, 24 May 1883 by purchase, Registry nr, Chatam 740 army record
T Soper Pvt 2032; Discharged 24 May 1883, 1st period AR; 4th Reg Dist, The Royal Lancaster Regiment; SO 2838/D5 army record : [not obvious '81cen; ???a son of Thomas in Lancs Reg; Thomas m.Elizabeth Ewington 1888, Southwark, Lon]
W Soper Pvt 986 35th Royal Sussex Reg, discharged 17 Jan 1884, due to 1st period AR; registry nr.WD 1007 ; Sec 37th Reg army record : [??a Lieut William Henry Soper Royal Sx Reg, WW1 medals]
William Henry Soper (1865-?) Pvt Kings Own Scottish Boarderers, Enlisted 1884, Quartermaster Sgt by 1905. In Boar War 1900-2 : retired after 21y by 1905 : to be hon Lt 1914, retired again hon Capt 1919 biog]
Reginald Henry Soper b.abt 1884, a Driver in the Royal Horse Artillery, parents Sydney & Caroline : wife R.E.Soper : home, 38 Perrers Road, Hammersmith, London : died Seine, France : 13 May 1918, buried/monument Boisguillaume Communal Cemetery Extension : from Soper war deaths
W Soper 1st period AR, Discharged 17 Jan 1884 Royal Sussex Regiment 35th Regimental Discrict (35th & 107th Regiments) WD 1007; see 35th Regimental District (35threg & 107threg); National Archives GBM_WO121_0233_001_062 army record
Job Soper (1860-?) Private nr.1072, 1st Batt, The Welsh Regiment 1885-1897; b.Rampisham, Glam; labourer, 24y 6m; 5ft 4�in; weight 9st 9lbs; Chest 36"; good physical development; Enlisted at Cardiff; Dublin 1885; Egypt 1886; Sudan 1888; Jordan Medal & Clasp 1888; Malta 1889; Transferred sec.B, 1st Glam? Reg 1893; Discharged, time expired Cardiff 1997
Harry Soper (1867-?) Private nr.6195 12 Coy, Transport Corps, Royal Artillery 1885-97; b.Greenwich, Kent, a metal turner; 5ft 5�in; 121lbs; chest 33�; good development; fresh complexion; blue eyes; bown hair; C of E; vaccinated left arm in infancy; parents William & Mary Ann, 106 Tanners Hill, Deptford, Kent; Attested at Woolwich Apr 1885 age 18y 1m [so b~Mar 1867]; Home service 14 Apr 85-13 Apr 97 (12y service); Character by H Bird upholsterer of Lucas St; Joined at Aldershot Apr 1885; Good conduct: Dublin Sep 85 (18d sick Oct & 49d sick Dec 85; 2nd class certificate of education 3 Sep 86: Discharged Driver, ASC Apr 1897 after 12y service; Good character army record : [Harry b.Oct>Dec 1867, Greenwich to William Robert & Mary Ann (perhaps m.1865, Lewisham, Lon]
Arthur Stanley James Soper b.1866 Bristol, Glos : Pvt 1357; Royal Horse Guards, 1885-1888 Army Pensioner's Record, from findmypast : [see, a London PC 1893]
T W Soper, Pvte Depot Wiltshire Regiment (no reg nr) attested 20 Apr 1886 & discharged 21 Apr 1886, not likely to become efficient; 62rd Regimental Dist; Nat Archive nrGBM_WO121_0247_001_097 army record : [only T W Soper in '81cen was Thomas W Soper age 8... assume too young]
Alfred Soper of St. Mary, Plympton, Dev; Devon RGA : WO96/1328 Militia Attestations Index�1886-1910
Francis Joseph Soper of St. Pancras, Middlesex : West Surrey Regiment : WO96/28 Militia Attestations Index� 1886-1910
Herbert Soper of Chudleigh, Devonshire : Devon RGA : WO96/1328 Militia Attestations Index� �1886-1910
Herbert Soper of Rampisham, Dorset : Dorset Regiment (44th Foot) : WO96/677 Militia Attestations Index� �1886-1910
John Soper of Hammersmith, Middlesex : Kent RGA : WO96/1381 Militia Attestations Index 1886-1910
James Soper gunner nr.1017; secB1 Class Army Reserve, late? Royal Horse Artillery depot, attested 12 Nov 1874; discharged 11 Nov 1886, reason 1st period LE; payment RA Woolwich; Woolwich discharge list scan
Frederick Soaper (c1866-?) nr.2893 16th Lancers, 1886-1902: father William Fr Soaper 21 London St, Ratcliffe, E; wife Hannah Elizabeth Bassenger m.Parish Church, St James Ratcliffe, Lon 21 Jul 1894; b.Sheppey, 'London' [Kent], labourer; previous service, 2nd Tower Hamlets Volunteers: age 20, 5ft 8in; 147lbs; 35in chest; pale complexion; blue eyes; mouse? hair; C of C; Attested for 6y & Medical London 28 Jan 1886, fit; Joined Dublin 3 Feb 1886, 19y 5m; India 2 Sep 1890 (3y 89d): Home service 28 Jan 1898 (2y 49d) (total 12y service) : Recalled to army service 19 Jun 1900; 12th Lancers, Res Sq: South Africa 26 Jun 1900 (1y 160d) SA campaign medal 1899-01: Home service 3 Dec 1901 (187d): Discharged 7 Jun 1902; reason; time expired; no injuries; total service 16y 131d army record
Alfred Soper Pte nr1171 medal roll of the 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment for the 1887-89 campaign in Burma www.britishmedals.us : [Alfred (1863-1943) below]
Frederick William Soper Pte nr2139 medal roll of the 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment for the 1887-89 campaign in Burma www.britishmedals.us : [?a Frederick William, b.1865 Southampton to George & Charlotte m.1865] : & Royal Defence Corp 1914, age 50 : [?another Frederick William b.1868 Upton, Hants to Thomas & Jane Green m.1844 Hants & 01cen, soldier in Boar War]
William Soper (1870-) Pvte nr.1650 4th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment; b.St Sidwell, Exeter, Dev; home St Paul's, Exeter, Dev; attested 29 May 1888 at Wonford Camp, Exeter, for 6 years; age 17y 11m; labourer for Mr Siver of Reading, Berk; unm; signed; 5ft 1in; fair complexion; grey eyes; light brown hair; C of E; tattooed bracelet & 3 dots on left forearm; cicatrx? left breast & shoulder; resent 1889 camp; service to 1 Feb 1890; discharged by purchase scan 1, 2 & 3
Charles Valentine Soper (1865-1927) m.Annie Best (1863-1923), spinster 5 Aug 1889 at Enniskillen, Fermanagh [Ireland]; witnesses John Clancy & Annie Quinis: from military record; [m.Jul>Sep Irish Civil Registration] [at Enniskillen Barracks, with King's Royal Rifles]
James Soper (1871-?) Private, nr.229, Rifle Brigade 1889: b.Luton, Beds [c1871- actualy b.~1873], to father James Soper* 22 Greenman? St, Islington; enlisted when a hammerman; height 5ft 5 5/8in; weight 123; chest 33in; good physical development; vaxinated in infancy left arm, 3 marks; slight thickening left and? : Enlisted 4 Oct 1889; London; age 18 : Discharged good & temperate conduct; 14 Oct 89 in consequence of his having claimed it an payment of �10 within 3 months of his attestation (13 days service) army record : [?a James m.Maud Mary Cannon 1904, *but father seems William?]
Leonard Soper (1889-?) nr.2693, Gunner, Devon Royal Garrison Artillery; enlisted 1907; b.St Mary, Plymouth, Dev; Resides 5 Victoria Cottages, Victoria Ln, St Johns parish, Plymouth; Employer Mr Poole of Plymouth, no trade; Joined for 6y; age 18y 11m [so b.cJun 1889, but if he was LCS b.Jan>Mar 1888, then enlisted 17y?]; unm; 5ft 7�in; 139lbs; chest 35�in (expansion 2�in); fresh complexion; blue eyes; light brown hair; C of E; Distinctive marks, brown birthmark above left potella, Chronic enlarged tonsil; (Pulse 72 ten mts; later 72m) : (previously rejected due to under chest measurement): Attached 16 Jul 1907 at Devonport; Devon Regiment; fit for militia; 49 days drill on enlistment; Enlisted 10 Sep 1907; Gunner Somerset Line?, (good character in Devon Reg); Next of kin; Father, St Davis, 5 Victoria Cottages, Victoria Lane, Plymouth, [Devon] army record : [Leonard Courtney Soper b.Jan>Mar 1888, Plymouth; parents Thomas Woods Soper m.Eliza Elizabeth Lewarn who m.1876]
Army Sopers in the 1891 census
Albert E Soper (c1875-?) age 16, b.Carnarvon, Wales, a private soldier in the East Kent Regiment at Cheriton, Folkstone. About 840 people under Lieut Colonel Charles E Partridge : [father, Charles, a soldier 1846]
Charles Soper age 17, b.Plymouth, Devon, a private in the Militia of Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry at Bodmin Barracks, Cornwall; 272 entries headed by Major Henry Thos Ward Allatt 44 www.freecen.org.uk; scan
Emmaniel Golding Soper (1846-?) age 45, a retired soldier at Lower Budleigh, St Thomas, Dev; b.Woodbury, Dev, '91 cen; wife Elizabeth Soper 32 b.Otterton, Frank Soper 8, Louisa Soper 6 both scholars b.India, William Soper 6m b.E.Budleigh freecen.org.uk : [see Sopers in India] : ['11cen Emanuel Goding Soper, 65 at St Thomas, Dev]
Frederick Soper Rowland 21unm private soldier infantry; Depot Royal Highlanders at Queens Barracks, Barrack Street, (East Church), Perth, Perthshire, Scot '91 cen; b.Wales : [speculate mother '91cen Caroline Soper Rowland 58 widow, living on own means at Tanymaes, High Street, Bangor, Wales]
Kate Soper (c1866-?) 26 wife of marine, alone at 58 Gloucester St, Stoke Damerel, Dev; b.+++Devonport, Dev
John Soper 54 pensioner�in 1 room at 49 Tavistock Rd (Kingers Arms), Stoke Damerel, Dev '91cen; b.Woolwich, Kent sharing 1 room with John Kane 48 organ blower b.Ireland & wife Harriett 79 b.Dev, also John Parson 45 beer retailer b.Dev & wife Selina 61 b.Con (28 in 9 rooms at address); scan : [a sailor & soldier]
Walter Soper (c1881-?) age 10, scholar Stoke Damerel; b.Dorset; at RMA Chelsea, '91 census source [Royal Military Asylum/School, Chelsea] : [not vis bmd] : [??a Walter 2m at Stoke Damerel; b.Devonport, Dev, parents Louis 40 a painter b.Portsmouth, Hant & Mary A 26 b.Plymouth]
William Soper 23 sergt Royal Highlanders at Queens Barracks, Barrack Street, (East Church), Perth, Perthshire, Scot '91 cen; b.Wales ; scan [father Charles (c1827-1874) Sgt, S.Wales Borderers see]
Albert�C W Soper (c1873-?) in 90th Reg, presumably after 1891 & sailing to US bef.1895 : [from his Canadian Army Record, enlisted 1899 for Boar War]
Charles William Soper (c1874-?) nr 90122, Driver, Royal Artillery 1892-1904; 5fy 4�in; 132lbs; 35�" chest, expands 2"; fair hair; hazel eyes; brown hair; C of E; dots? on forearms; born Poplar, Lon, 18y 10m, [so b~Mar 1874], a baker; address on discharge, 1 Wheeler St, Spitalfield Market St, Spitalfield, London E; Mother Eliza Mehntens, 20 Corbetts Court, Spitalfields, Lon; Attested for 7y + 5y in reserves, 6 May 1892 at St George's Barracks, Woolwich, Lon; Driver, 1st Depot, 1st Battery; Injured back at Riding School, Woolwich 26 May 92: Home service RHA (7y 114d); Transferred 'B', Army Reserve 6 May 99; : Recalled to army; Driver, Ammunition Column 7 Oct 99; South Africa 27 Oct 99 (2y 312d): Discharged 5 May 04, pension 11y 9d, service 12y 0d; South Africa 1899 campaigns 'Queens' with clasp " 'R' of Kimberly", "Paadeberg", Driefonteice", "Johannesburg" & " Diamond Hill"; Kings South Africa Medal & Clasps 01 & 02; Roll 358 army record : [not link to family]
Frank Soper (1873-?) Driver nr.89742 99th Battery, Royal Field Artillery 1892-1910 b.St Johns, Cheltenham, Glos; labourer 130lbs, 35in chest; 'F' on left wrist; light brown hair; C of E; Attested for 12 years, Driver RA 5 Apr 1892 Woolwich age 18y 6m [so b~Nov 1873] medical, Bristol 6 Apr 25th RA Regt, found fit; RA Gloucester reg 7 Apr Horfield; Home service from 5 Apr (1y 317d); previous service, 3rd Bat, Gloucester Regt; transferred 9th Field Battery 16 Feb 94; To India 16 Feb 94 (12y 67d) : Indian Medal, with clasps Punjab Frontier 1897-8, Lamura 1897, Tinah 97-8; Posted 11th Battery 1 Dec 1897; Campaign NW India 1897-8; Re-engaged to complete 21y 9 Nov 03; Home Service from India 24 Apr 06; Discharged 8 Aug 1910 Colchester; Chelsea age 36y 8m; nr.92348, at his own request after 18y service; (18y 126d service); Intended residence 35 Albert St, Colchester, Ex; qualified to be a groom; army record : [Frank b.Oct>Dec 1872, Cheltenham, Glos; a Frank m.Charlotte H Wright at Cheltenham 1914]
James George Soper b~Jan 1874 2nd Dragoons 1892; b.All Saints, Southampton, Hants; 18y 7y; 5ft 8�in; 131lbs; 33in expansion 2in; fresh face; blue grey eyes; brown hair; C of E; scar on eight stuenb?; Father George of Upper Bannister St; Discharged Winchester 29 Jul 1892; consideredunfit for the army, defective vision both eyes; at Winchester, Southampton, Hants
George Soper (1873-?) Private nr.3819 3rd Bat, Royal Berks Regt 1892-92; b.Chute, Andover, Wilts; a sawman?/cowman for Mr Henley, Andover, Wilts; 5ft 4�in; 118lbs; chest 32in 2in expansion, fresh complexion, hazel eyes, brown hair, C of E; mole under left collarbone; Attested for 6y as militiaman; 11 Jan 1892, age 18y 3m [so b~Nov 1873]; Discharged 5 Aug 1892; 22 Nov 1892 total '356 years' service army record : [not vis '81cen/'91cen Charles Soper, Royal Horse & Field Artillery nr.86881; Royal Artillery; WO 363. 36659 : 8 Jan 1892 reported sick; my feet had swelled so that I could not do my drill. When it happened at 8:30pm, I had socks on but no boots; Surgeon admitted him to hospital on 9 Jan with a wounded foot. It should not interfere with his duties. 21 Sep 92 Officer satisfied the injury was not the fault of the army as he was off-duty; British Army Service Record
James Soper, Pvt, East Surrey Reg 1892-1902; b.Steventon, nr.Winchester groom, age 18y 4m : [so b.~Oct 1873]; parents George & Elizabeth of Steventon; 5ft 3�in; weight 116lbs; chest 32�, fresh complexion; brown eyes; brown hair; C of E; Joined Kingston 26 Jan 1892, when with 3rd Bat E.Surrey Reg; Malta 93 (2�y); S.Africa Oct 99 (2�y); service 12y army record
Samuel Soper (1875-?) Private, nr.2748,'D Company, 4th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment 1893; b.Hatherleigh, Exeter, Dev & residing there, labourer to J Coleman at Cullumpton, Dev Attested 16 Aug 1893, Exeter, for 6y in Militia; 49 days drill on enlistment; 18y 1m; 5ft 8�in; weight 117lbs; Chest 31>33"; fresh complexion; grey eyes; brown hair; C of E; scar on left cheek: Enlisted R.M. Light Infantry; 9 Oct 1893 [Royal Marines] army record : [b.1877 to Robert m.Elizabeth Vanstone 1863, Okehampton, Dev]
Thomas John Soper (1871-?) Gunner, nr.98628 16co Royal Garrison Artillery, Southern Div 1893-1905 : National Archives, record nr.WO97-5965-100 : a porter, b.St Pancras, Exeter, Dev; age 22y 0m, [so b.Aug 1871] 5ft 6�in; weight 123lbs; 35�in; fresh complexion; hazel eyes; brown hair; C of E; Anchor & indistinct mark tattooed back of left forearm; Indistinct marks tattooed front & back of right forearm : father William 21 Pancras Ln, Paul St, Exeter : m.Margaret Jane Sandercock, both unm; 14 Oct 1895 at Stoke Damerel registry office, Dev; witness C & A Sandercock; children Margaret, Tho, Marian, John, Louise, Mary & Jane; bpt.7 Jul 1898, Exeter; 'wife with husband' {?Margaret Manow Louise bpt.7 Jul 98} : Attested 11 Aug 1893, Crownhill Fort Exeter, for 7 years service & 5 years in reserves; currently Devon Artillery (WDRA) : Home service 12 Aug 1893 (for 3y 167d) : Posted South Div 16; 26 Jan 1897 : Malta 26 Jan 1897 (2y 331d) : to South Africa 23 Dec 1899 (2y 333d); S. Africa Campaign 1899 : Became RGA 1 Jan 1902 : Paid war Paid war gratuity �5 +�1 5s 7d = �6 5s, 18 Sep 1902 : Home service 12 Aug 1902 (3y 0d) : Transferred 'B' Reserve 4 Nov 1902 (2y 181d) [so not serving f/t?] : Discharged 11 Aug 1905; Total 12 years service (-2y 181d = 9y 184 pension) : Medals Queens SA Medal with clasps "Belfast", "Cape Colony", "Ingela Heighs", "Relief of Ladysmith" & "Laingo Nek"; Medal Roll 451: & King's Medal Clasp 1901-2 (M.roll 147) see military biog : [?parents William plasterer m.Mary Ann 1867 Exeter]
Harry Soper (1875-?) nr.4666 5th Battalion, 3rd Royal Berks Regiment 1894-5; born & living at Kingsclere, Newbury, Berks; a labourer for Mr Garret, Newbury; 5ft 6in; 124lbs; chest 31in max extention 2in; fresh complexion; grey eyes; black hair; C of E; scar about left buttock; Tendency to nasal polyps, unfit for service : Attested 22 Jan 1894, Newbury, age 18y 2m [so b~Nov 1875]; found fit for Militia 24 Jan, 19th Regimental District; Present 1894 [assume at annual camp]; 14 Mar 1895 (1y 42d); Discharge purchased, �1 army record : [parents Jacob (1844-1902) m.1876 Louisa Clara Goddard (1845-1882) at Reading]
Francis Joseph Soper (1877-?) Private nr.8734 3rd Battalion, Royal W.Surrey Reg 1895; b.St Pancras, Lon; home 67 Elsted St, Walworth; labourer for Mr Hancock, Ray Lane, Peckham, Lon; 5ft 4�in; 114lbs; 31�in 2in expansion; fresh complexion; hazel eyes; dark hair; C of E; Attested for 6 years in Militia, London 10 Jan 1895, age 17y 2m; Posted Private for 49 days on enlistment; Discharged by purchase 25 Apr 1895 : [Francis b.Jan>Mar 1878, St Pancras, Lon to Charles & Mary Elizabeth Stickler who m.1875, Lambeth, Lon]
Hugh Soper (1877-?) Prt nr.3153, 3rd Bat, Somerset L I Reg 1895-8; 5ft 3in; weight 107lbs; chest 31�, 2�in expansion; fresh complexion; blue eyes; brown hair; C of E: born.Yeovil, S/st; residence of 9 Ilchster Rd, Yeovil; employed as mason's labourer for Mr Credland & Bros, Yeovil; Enlisted in Militia for 6y; Private, 3rd Battalion; 21 Jun 1895; 18y 4m, unm; [so b.Feb 1877]; fit for militia at medical, 22 Jun 1895 Taunton; Purchased his Discharge for �1 on 4 May 1898 at Taunton 'E' Coy army record : [Hugh m.Emma Gaylard 1897, Yeovil ]
Walter F Soper 1895 Corfu, 60th Regiment; Army Chaplains Registers of Births/Baptisms source : [presume father a soldier? - several bmd records in Corfu; not obvious '11cen] : [connection?? a Walter b.1858 army pensioner record]
Henry John Soper (1875-?) Private, nr.4164 Devonshire Reg 1895-1900; Joined 19y 2m when with Hants Militia; 5ft 6in, 118lbs, 34in; pale complexion, brown eyes & hair; C of E; scars on calf & thigh; NofK, mother Myrom? Soper, Apsley [Farm (or Lane?)], Hurstbourne Priors, Whitchurch, Hants: b.Littleton?/Littleam, Andover, Hants labourer; India 1896 (1y 215d); S.Africa 1899 (78d); Discharged Dec 1900 medically unfit; India medal, Punjab Frontier & Tirah Expedition clasp army record : [perhaps Henry Soper m.Miriam Wise 1868 Andover; children; They lived at Broughton '01cen with son 'John' 24, an army pensioner; '91cen Henry 47 at Hurstbourne Priors, Hants, Meriam 44 b.Stoke, John 15, Sarah 13, Roland 11, Fanny 7 & Joseph 5]
John Soper (1878-?) Gunner, nr.17333 Royal Artillery 1896-1903; b.St Thomas, Exeter, Dev address on leaving 2 Burnley Cottages, Haven Rd, St Thomas, Exeter; Father William, Haven Rd; a porter 18y 2m [so b~Sept 1878]; 5ft 8�in; 135lbs; chest 35in; fresh complexion; blue eyes; brown hair; Wesleyan; Attested 7y service & 5y in Reserve; Requested joining Corps of Dragoons [but ended up in artillery]; Joined at Crownhill [Fort, Plymouth] 28 Nov 1896 [defended Royal Dockyard, Devonport, but obsolete by then]; Home service 1896-1903 (7y); Transferred, Gunner Royal Artillery 26 Nov 1896; Transferred 1st class Army Reserve 1903; Character very good; Total service 12y, forfeited 5y (as left 1903) so pension 7y; Home service 1903-8 (5y) army record
Alfred Charlie Soper b.c1868 Corporal RE of 6 Eagle Terrace, Aldershot when dau Eilleen Marjorie Soper b.12 Oct 1895; bpt.26 Jan 1896 St Mary & All Saints, Dunsfold, Sy; wife Rose Agnes Babbage; m.1895, Farnham, Sy
John Soper (1879-?) Private nr.3479 4th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment 1897-98 or later; b.Axminster, Dev; resided Castle Hill, Axminster, brush maker for Bidwell Bros, Axminster; next of kin mother Martha; brother George both of Castle Hill : age 18y 2m; 5ft 6in; 119lbs; 31in expansion 1�in; fresh complexion, grey eyes, light brown hair; C of E; Attested for 6 years, Exeter 13 Apr 1897 [so b~Feb 1879] : 76 days drill on enlistment : Present 1898 : [John m.Martha Hopkins 1871, Beaminster, Dor]
Col Fred A Soper (1877-1933) b.4 Aug to Albert P (a civil war veteran) & Emily Corbin Soper. Early life at at Watertown; m.Maude M Place 5 May 1897. No children. Not in military, but father in civil war, joined Sons of Veterans, Bradley Winslow Camp & Capt in Veterans reserve corps. Came to Watertown 1910. 10y with Sears & Pruyn & 2+y Johnson & Murray, Watertown wholesalers; Commander of Dept of NY, rank Colonel; Ran store; Town Clerk & Mason; Fred A d.24 Mar, age 55, heart attack at his home Upper Commercial St, Therasa, bur.Oakwood Cemetery, Theresa His widow Maude M Soper (1876-1940) d.5 Mar, bur.N.Watertown Cemetery, Jefferson County, NY (she came from Teresa where they lived). Father Albert bur.N.Watertown cemetery source & obit [researched as thought he may he the F A Soper crossing Atlantic regularly, but apparently not]
Sergent R J Soper, South Wales Borderer, 1 of 243 men awarded long-service & Good-conduct medals : from Guardian Newspaper, 6 Jan 1898 : [see Boar War below]
Frank Soper Pvt nr.4965 & 5692 5th Bat, Lancs Fusiliers Reg 98-01; b.St Johns, Bolton; resident 36 Back Foundry Street, St Johns, Bolton; 5ft 4in; weight 108lbs; 31�in expansion 2in; fresh complexion, grey eyes, dark brown hair; C of E; tattoos 4 dots Rt & 1 left forearms; blue scar lip cheek (& 7m later 5ft 5in; 115lbs; man's head tattooed on right forearm); a piecer for W Jenkins foreman of The Robin Hood Spinning Co Works, Bolton; Attested militia 29 Oct 98 Bury, Lancs age 17y 1m [so b~Sep 81 (so 2y underage)]; 29 Oct 98- 28 May 99; Attended underage, discharged on payment 29 May 99 : Paid �2 on 31 May 99, Bury; Attested [again] for 6 years; 1 Jun 99 , Bolton; age 17y 6m [so b~Jan 82 (so 1�y underage)]; fit at medical 3 Jun at Bury; Served 1 Jun to 29 Jul 99; Embodied 19 Feb -17 Oct 00; Disembodied 18 Oct 00 - 4 Mar 01; Joined Shropshire Light Infantry 5 Mar 01 army record : [Frank b.Apr>Jun 1883, Bolton, Lancs to Frederick & Mary Jane Lloyd who m.at Bolton]
Henry John Soper & Margaret Hannah bpt Margaret Lewins 1 Sep 1898 & Arabella Melinda Freda 6 Oct 1901, both at Torpoint; b.10 Jun; both bapt; father a warrant officer of 4 Carbeal Terrace, 33 Fore Street : [igi] : ['11cen all at Medway, Kent, Henry (c1865-?)]
Percival Charles Soper [b.Jun>Sep 1878, Croydon, Sy to Henry Edwin Soper m.Annetta Whitam, who m.1872]. Percy enlisted for 12y, 1898, Pvt, 2nd Batt, Royal Fusiliers; Malta 1898-9; Gibraltar 1899-1901; Egypt 1901-3; Bermuda 1903-5; Lafria? 1905-6; Home 1906-10; Transferred to army reserve 1906: parents Henry Edwin & Emma; married Bessie Witcombe 1907 : [see Percy's full military record]
Gnr T Soper's wife of a dau b.7 Jul 1898 at Rouse's Buildings, Paul St, Exeter; Gnr T Soper of the SDRA, Malta; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 30 Jul, from newspapers.bl.uk : [??a Margaret Marian L Soper b.Jul>Sep 1898 Exeter, Dev (not vis '01cen)]
Charles Soper, Corporal, 73rd Foot 1898; record for sale forces-war-records.co.uk : [see 1846]
Army Sopers in the Boar War, S.Africa (1899-1902)
A C W Soper, private, Canadian, was one of 125 men from British Columbia & Manitoba, 1000 men sailed 30 Oct 1899 in the Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry, 1st Contingent Boar War. : source. He survived (just), see 1902
A E Soper 2323 The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Reg) Disease on 29 Dec 1900 at Harrismith (Official casualty roll location: Harrismith); Memorial: Duke Of York's School. Chapel Tablet. Old Boys Dover, Kent; Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 findmypast.com
A F Soper [Duke of Edinburgh's Own Volunteer Rifles; Cape Colonial Volunteer Corps] Source: QSA & KSA rolls; DEOVR angloboerwar.com
Henry Soper (1877-?) nr.147 9th battery, Royal Field Artillery 1899-1907; a clerk; 5ft 4�in; weight 123lbs; chest 34in expansion 2�in; fresh complexion; grey eyes; dark brown hair; C of E; tattoo "HS" left upper arm; Dots left forearm; dot 2nd & 4th finger left hand; Attested London 23 Jun 1899 age 22y 1m [so b~May 1877]; Home Service to 28 Jan 1900 (219d): S.Africa 28 Jan 1900 (2y 268d); SA Campaign 1899 (1900, 01, 92 crossed out) [& not there 1899?]: Home Service Oct 1902 (6y 361d): Promoted Bombardier 2 Oct 1904: Posted 92nd bat 1909 & 95th bat 1910: Transferred Reserve Jan 1911: S.Arica 14 Jan 1911 (162d): Discharged Jun 1911 (12y service, pension 19y 203d): Medals 1. Queens SA Medal with clasp for Cape Colony, Orange Free state & Transvaal; 2. Kings S.Africa Medal, with clasps 'S.Africa 1901' & 'S.Africa 1902' army record
James Soper (c1855-?) Gunner, nr.11614, Royal Horse Artillery 1900-01: b.Bloxworth, Wareham, Dorset; a labourer, age 45, married, wife Jane 5 Stanley Road, Poole, Dor; 5ft 8�in; 192lbs; chest 38�, expansion 1�in; Crown & gun tattoo mark on left fore arm; fair complexion; blue eyes; fair hair; C of E; previously 9 years with changed at expiration of current period of engagement; did not have or lost previous attestation records; Joined 10 Mar 1900; Enlisted at Newbridge 12RA RHA, inspected 2 Apr 1900 considered fit 13 Jul 1900; Posted 2 Apr 1900; Granted good conduct pay 10 Mar 1900; Discharged age 45, 1 Apr 1901, 1y 3d service; AA battery (signed by commanding officer of A.A. Battery, RHA) army record [not anti-aircraft, batterys got letters] : [James m.Jane White 1884, Wareham]
Albert H Soper, Duke of Edinburgh's own Volunter Rifles, a jewish soldier. His picture in photograph of D Mintz & 3 others sent to �The Jewish Chronicle" by Mintz; 6 Sep 1900. 'One of the 1st corps called out for active service, stiff engagement at Fabers Put (60 killed/wounded); Now in fortifications nr Transvaal Border : [Albert H's in bmd; Albert Henry Soper b.Jul>Sep 1877 Shoreditch, Lon; Albert Harry T Soper b.Oct>Dec 1879, Berks, but d.1892?]
A R Soper British South Africa Police; Source: QSA & KSA rolls angloboerwar.com : [??an Arthur Russell Soper b.1881 Reading, Berks; to William gunmaker & Ellen Clowes Hobbs who m.1866; '01cen engineer; SA to Eng 1903]
C W Soper 90122 Driver, Royal Horse Artillery, Medal roll (from National Archives WO100 series): Boar War : [Charles William army record]
Private F Soper, wounded 27 Feb 1900, 1st rifle brigade, South Africa (54 wounded, 5 killed that day in brigade) : from Guardian Newspaper, 6 Mar
F Soaper, Private nr 2417 12th Lancers Cavalry awarded Queens South Africa Medal : www.britishmedals.us
F J Soper, Sergeant, The South Wales Borderers; Honours and Awards of the South African War: Boar War : [2 F J Sopers got medals WW1]
Frank Percy Philpott Soper, gent to be 2nd Lieutenant (Supernumerary). 1st Volunteer Battalion, the Essex Regiment 20 Jun 1900 (London Gazette 19 June) : [invalided back to England from Cape Town 1902] : [Frank Percy Philpott Soper (1875-1939) Cambridge University Alumni 1894 says b.12 Oct 1875 Epping : he lived Theydon Towers, Epping : '11cen at Epping age 35 'of private means' with mother & brother John Philpott Henry Soper 42 a barrister) : d.8 Jan 1939 of The Breakers Seaton, Dev, formerly of St Thomas Mansions, Westminster Bridge, Lon (executor Walter Reginald Tuckett)]
Frank William Sopper, 2nd Lieut 8th Hussars, from 3rd Battalion the East Yorkshire Regiment, to be Second Lieutenant, on augmentation. 7 Jul 1900 (London Gazette 6 Jul) : [see Soppers 1899]
George Alfred Soper b.30 May 1872 Llanbeblig, Caernarvon to Charles Soper military record
George Soper (1876-?) nr.60314 3rd battalion 49th Regiment, Royal Berkshires 1899-1905; born & residing at St Nicholas parish, Newbury, Berks; labourer to Mr Faby, Newbury; 5ft 6�in, 126lbs; chest 33in expansion 2�in, fresh complexion, blue eyes, brown hair; C of E; several scars on right shoulder; Attested 11 Jan 1899 at Newbury, age 22y 1m [so b~Dec 1876] for 6 years as militiaman; medical 11 Jan at Reading; Discharged 9 Jan 1905, time expired army record; [Not vis '81/ '91/ '01cen; birth not vis bmd]
Sgt Soper of 1st Wilts RV, completed his 3 courses of class-firing, score 194, 12 Sep; believed to be a record, 2 points short of highest possible. S.Wales News 15 Sep 1896 scan
a Soper recorded in list of British artillerymen fighting in South Africa, 1899-1902 all recieved the South Africa Medal : scan for sale Theoriginalrecord.com
J Soper, Private, nr4208 18th Hussars (Victoria Mary, Prince of Wales's Own): Boer War List; in QSA medal rolls; QSAs with the clasp Talana from the Talana book angloboerwar.com : Also The Queen's South Africa (QSA) Medal Clasps: Orange Free State, Defence of Ladysmith, Belfast, Talana, Laing's Nek; source '18th Hussars in S.Africa', by Maj Charles Burnett, pub.1905
John Walter Soper Tpr nr25279 nominal roll of Kitchener's Horse, a colonial unit of the Boer War of 1899-1902 from WO 127 at the National Archives : source : [a John Walter Soper b.Oct>Dec 1877 Lambeth, Lon (connection? a John Walters Soper d.Jul>Sep 1876 Hendon, Lon age 27)]
J W Soper rank plumber nr651; 4 Depot, Remounts, Medal roll (from National Archives WO100 series): Boar War records
Peter Soper nr33632, Trooper, 49th Company (Montgomeryshire) 9th battalion Imperial Yeomanry. 1899-1902 : www.britishmedals.us: QSA Medal Rolls; The Queen's South Africa (QSA) Medal Clasps: Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; source The National Archives WO128
R J Soper, Sergeant nr2580, 2 Battalion, South Wales Borderers, prisoner 31 Jan 01 Modderfontein & released : Awards: DCM: Prisoner - Released on 31 Jan 1901 at Modderfontein (1) (Official casualty roll location: Modderfontein) : [Gen Smuts capture Modderfontein 31 Jan 1901] ; 2nd bat sailed on 'Bavarian 18 Jan-3 Feb 1900, part of 15th Brigade under Maj Gen Wavell; After severe marching down the line; 200 men of 2nd Bat surrendered at a post at Modderfontein when attacked by a strong force end Jan 1901 (10 killed, 40 wounded); 8 mentioned in Kitchener's despatches for exceptional gallantry, 1 awarded DMC [11 DCMs for SWB London Gazette 27 Sep 1901 (all officers/NCOs)]. The bat in garrison work SW Transvall for remainder of campaign, Stationed at Klerksdorp towards end. source; 32 d.in fighting; 84 d.disease, 98 wounded, 167 missing/POW, source
W Soper; Quartermaster Sergeant, 3 Battalion , The King's Own Scottish Borderers; Awards: DCM; from Honours & Awards of the South African War : [ William Henry b.1865 Ifield, Horsham, Sx; m.Clara Downes at Newcastle 1891 biog" & WW1 pension records]
W Soper; Pvt nr714, 1st Battalion; Coldstream Guards last name on Panel 1 of Bloemfontein Memorial Boar War site (1 of 214 who died in the regiment)
William Soper (c1887-?) b.St Lawrence, Jersey, a gardener, Pvt 1st Reg Jersey Light Infantry; Jersey Militia; Attested at St Helier, Jersey, 17 Jul 1899; age 18; Joined Aldershot 21 Jul 99; Served 21 years Royal Army Medical Corps; S Africa 9y, Mauritius 2�y, Brit Ex Force, France 5y; biog
William Soper (c1887-?) b.St Lawrence, Jersey, Royal Army Medical Corps Landed at Durban, Natal 21 Dec 1899; 2nd class orderly 1 Mar 01; Charistwon 4 Jul 02; Left SA 6 Nov 1902 (after 2y 247d)
Ga Soaper lance corporal Black Watch 1899; record for sale forces-war-records.co.uk; ....... a Soper recorded in list of outstanding soldiers of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 1881-1901 period covers Egypt, Malta, India & South Africa : scan for sale Theoriginalrecord.com [see 1874]
W S W Soper gunner nr367; Prince Alfred's Cape Field Artillery; Medal roll (from National Archives WO100 series): SA Army Territorials; [WSW Soper not vis www]
Private William C Soper (or William E?) 32unm b.Jan 1868 England (parents b.Eng); immigrated 1883 (parents b.Eng) ; in US 1900 census (taken 28 Jul), Cagayou de Misawis Field Staff & Band, Comp.'A', 40th US Infantry Reg, at Dapilan, Mindanao, Philippines; source : [Cagayan de Misamis & Dapitan, Mindanao, N towns on 2nd largest Philippine island; a battle Cagayou de Misawis 7 Apr 1900 battle wiki] : [a William C Soper in British army 1881-1901, so not him??]
Joseph Soper private 2nd Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry �5 18s 6d : Personal estate held for relatives (London Gazette 30 Mar 1900) : Republished when amount available was �4 18s 9d (http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27478/pages/6216">Gazette Mr J Souper, officer in charge of the Commissariat department on HM Troopship Gymeric Apr 1900 sailing NZ soldiers from NZ to S.Africa: In the person of Mr Souper, we have a most competent & diligent, the men being provided with most excellent food & plenty of it. Just before reaching Albany, this gentleman found it necessary to draw the attention of the medical officers to the condition of the pickles beef & pork (supplied by the Gear Meat Coy.) the result being that the whole lot - some 11,000 lbs - were immediately condemned as unfit for food from The Gymeric Times published board nzhistory.net.nz
William Sopper, gent to be 2nd Lieutenant. 3rd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment (Militia) 24 Mar 1900 (London Gazette 10 Apr) : ['11cen perhaps William stockbroker 47 ?]
a Mr Soaper, recorded in a batch of service records, 1900-1913, Royal Hospital Chelsea: Soldiers Service Documents : WO 97/5964 : National Archives
James (c1855-?) Gunner, nr.11614, Royal Horse Artillery 1900-01: b.Bloxworth, Wareham, Dor; labourer, age 45, wife Jane 5 Stanley Rd, Poole, Dor; 5ft 8�in; 192lbs; chest 38�; Crown & gun tattoo mark on left fore arm; fair complexion; blue eyes; fair hair; C of E; previously 9y with changed at experation of current period of engagement; never had, or lost, previous attestation records; Joined 10 Mar 1900; Enlisted at Newbridge 12RA RHA, inspected 2 Apr 00 considered fit 13 Jul 00; Posted 2 Apr 00; Granted good conduct pay 10 Mar 00; Discharged age 1 Apr 01, 1y 3d service; AA battery (signed by commanding officer of AA Battery, RHA) army record [not balloon anti-aircraft; bats lettered - boar war recruitment surge]
Sidney Soper nr.2893 Northumberland Fusiliers 1910-2; b.Millwall. Lon; 17y 4d; [so b.cMay 1893] plumber; 5ft 8�in; 148lbs; 35in chest 2in expansion; fresh complexion; hazel eyes; brown hair; C of E; scars left chest & right buttock; pulse 96; found fit 5 Sep; Older brothers Albert 19 Bridge Rd, Greenwich, SE Lon & Charles 21 Gooke St, Millwall, E Lon; Attested 7 Sep 1910; Stratford; previously of 5th Btn, Middlesex Reg; 1y 160d Home service; 7 Sep 1910 posted Depot, Private; Joined Newcastle on Tyne; 2nd Batt 19 Oct; 24 Jan 1812; forfeits 8d pay for absence; absent 14-15 Feb ; guard room 15 Feb (11d); convicted by DCM of desertion & stealing goods of a comrade 84d detention 26 Feb & stoppage of pay; All prior service forfeited; Discharged 20 Mar 1912, no pension [after 11d guard room] army record [no family link yet; '01cen 10 at Poplar]
William Soper (1857-?) Bombadier, nr.9184 Royal Field Artillery 1900-01; 43y 11m; [enlistment push for Boar War : his promotion & tattoo shows a returned] 5ft 4�in; 146lbs; 34in chest, expands 2in; fresh complexion; brown eyes; brown hair; C of E; "Soper" & crossed flags right forearm; Field gun left forearm; gardener, b.Chiselhurst, Kt; Attested & Medical 18 Apr 1900 Woolwich; to serve 1y at home; previously served in Royal Reg of Artillery; Royal Horse Art; 'H' Bat, Royal Field Art (time expired); Range finder class 1 Jul 1886; Joined Brighton 19 Apr 1900, Driver; Posted, civil life & promoted Br 19 Apr 1900; Discharged on Termination of Engagement 17 Apr 1901 (service 1y 0d) army record : [William m.Jane Elizabeth Driscoll 1889, Bromley] : Presume from age, promotion & tattoo, already a acreer artilleryman
Army Sopers in the 1901 census
Albert Soper (c1870-?) Private Rmhl, [Royal Marines Light Infantry?] at Devonport, Devon, age 31, b.Bromley, Kent
End of 1901 census Quarter Master Sergeant Soper of 28th sub-dist at funeral of Sgt Samuel Burgess 33, stationed at Warwicks, Royal Marines; 'Banbury Advertiser' 25 Jul 1901 scan
Charles Percy Soper (1882-?) Private, nr.1550 7th Battalion; Royal Fusiliers, 1901-03; Nat Archive, record nr.WO96-0162-043; b.Tooting, London, Sy; home 62 Lefton St, Putney, Lon, Sy; a labourer for Mr Rohls, London, single; 5ft 3in; 106lbs; dark complexion; black eyes, black hair; C of E; scar upper lip & back of head; mole right collar bone; attested Lon, 15 Jan 1901 for 6y, age 18y 5m [so b.~Sep 1882] age also given as 17y 4m [perhaps when under height?] 7th Battalion; Royal Fusiliers; previously rejected as under height; 49 days drill on enlistment; Discharged by purchase �4 1 May 1903 army record : [no Charles Percy vis in '91/'01/'11cen; no birth vis bmd (or m/d)]
B J Soper Sergeant 2580 South Wales Borderers (London Gazette 10 Sep 1901) Men who distinguished themselves with special & meritorious service in South Africa, [v.long list] : [should be R J Soper, above]
Sergt W Soper, Royal Highlanders ['91cen a sgt above] & Sergt. R Soper, DCM, South Wales Borderers, survived the war. these Boer War casualties, are on Twtil Bach Hill War Memorial, for regulars and volunteers from the Town and County of Caernarfon : source.
James Soper 1 of 22 missing from 2nd Batt, East Surrey Reg, with despatch & description of Spion Kop battle; Evening Express 31 Jan 1900 scan
Pvt Soper unm soldier sailed on "SS Numidian" from Liverpool to Montreal, Canada; on same page Serg Frost & 7 privates, all crossed out (many other crossed out soldiers on other pages mixed with steerage passengers; 592 steerage & 47 in cabin (inc 2 capts & lieut crossed out) via Quebec departing 17 Jul 1902 (3,115 tons); scan; from findmypast
James George (1888-?) Gunner, nr.22259, Royal Field Artillery 1902-6; 5ft 9in (+1in on discharge); chest 40in; fair complexion; blue eyes; light hair; a carman, address on discharge 15 Albion Place, Harriss Rd, Sheerness; b.Minster, Sheerness, Kent; next of kin Mother Mary, elder brother William, younger brother Frederick all at 12 Sheppey St, Sheerness, Kent; age 22y 1d; weight 166�lbs; chest 37�in, C of E; Joined at Woolwich 26 Feb; Home service (2�y); pay at 4d Apr 04; India Dec 04 (1�y); Invalided India; Discharged May 06 (4�y) conduct, v.good; good conduct badge; age 26y 4m; Pension rejected army record : [James G m.Edith Singer m.1910 Sheppey]
Harry A T Soper (1879-?) nr.2884 Royal Field Artillery 1902-?; 5ft 5�in; weight 133; chest 33�in 2" expansion; fresh complexion; blue eyes; dark brown hair; C of E; tattoo pierced heart & anchor, left arm & circle in square left calf; father at 64 Biscay Rd, Hammersmith; brother William at 74 Biscay Rd 1902 A watchmaker, attested 27 Nov 1902, for 12 years [so b~1879] age 23; Driver 27 Dec 1902, joined Woolwich, A Sec, 1st Dep army record : [Harry Albert Thomas Soper b.c1880 Maidenhead, Berks to Alfred Albert Soper m.Rosa Trant 1873, Kensington, Lon] : [Harry Albert T Soper, Pvt, nr4950, London Reg got WW1 service medal & d.16m Aug 1917 Belgium see WW1 war deaths]
John Soper (1884-?) Gunner nr.6003 Kent Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia) 1902; b.Hammersmith, Lon; stableman to Mr H J Greenhouse of Rose Bank Wharf, SW Lon; address Banin St, Hammersmith; Father; Arthur George; Younger brothers Arthur, Stephen [but older bro's] & Thomas [not above]; 5ft 5�in; 110 lbs; 31in; fair complexion; grey eyes, brown hair; heart & arrow right forearm; J love S & Banham left forearm, 4 vaccination marks left arm; Attested for 6 years at Lon; 7 Aug 1902; 17y 11m; [so b~July 1891]; Attached Gunner 7 Aug 1902- 1 Dec 1902 (49d depot); Joined Royal Fusiliers 1 Dec 1902 army record : [parents Arthur George m.Amelia Culverwell, 'Milly' 1881, Fulham, Lon]
W Soper Quartermaster-Sergeant 3rd Battalion, the King's Own Scottish Borderers. to have the Distinguished Conduct Medal (London Gazette 31 Oct 1902) : [William Henry Soper (1865-?) Quartermaster Sergeant, Kings Own Scottish Boarderers biog : In South Africa 9 Mar 1900 to 18 Jun 1902 (Bulawaze? 2 Dec 1901) (paid war gratuity for SA 31 Jul 1902]
Edward Thomas Soper b.Tavistock, Devon 14 Jun 1887; an English private soldier (a signaller) for 5 years [presume between 1903 & 1913; as naturalised US citizen by 1913]
William Soper (c1879-?) nr5741 6th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers 3 Apr 1903 - 22 Jun 1904; b.Clerkenwell, Lon; home 39 Commercial St, Whitechapel, Lon; labourer to Mr W Bird, decorator of 88 Ritfield St, Lon; medically discharged; good character army record : [not linked '91/'01/'11cens]
Charles Soper (1885-?) Private, nr.(4134 &) 8304 3rd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, 1904; b.Battersea, Lon; home 12 Thornsett Rd, Earlsfield, Wandsworth, Lon; Feb 1904 N of K; father W Soper; by Jul 04 N of K mother Emily same addresses & brother Percy 3rd Dragoon Guards; a painter for Mr Camel, 28 Daughton Rd, Balham, Sy; 5ft 2in, 100lbs; chest 33in, 2in expansion; Complexion fresh; blue eyes; brown hair, C of E tattoo marks, dots left forearm; 3 vaccination marks left arm; Attested 21 Feb 04 Kingston age 18y 4m; 49d drill on enlistment; Released to army 21 Jul 04, 3rd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment [E.Surrey's barracks at Kingston]; Attested 22 July 04 S Western Police Court; age 19y 1m [so b.~Jun 1885], a tailor (previous service ES Reg); Posted 16 Oct 04; Convicted of theft; sentence 2m hard labour 30 Oct 1905; Duty 30 Dec 1905; at Jersey for "misconduct" 24 Nov 05; Discharged 5 Dec; Total service 1y 138d army record; [Not vis '91/'01/'11cen; family not vis]
Soper & Slade won the sack race (out of 26) of Rifle Brigade?, at Regimental Birthday Sports 25 Aug 1904; Rifle Brigade Chronicals p.188
Color-Sergt Henry Soper in charge; Recruiting Office for Royal Navy & Marines. 38 Bernard St, Sheffield; Park; West Riding Military Personnel 1912 source
Walter Soper (1888-?) Private nr.5095 in 3rd Btn, Beds Reg 1904-6; b.St Mathews, Luton; residence 25 York St, St Mathews, Luton 1904 when parents Charles & Jane, older sister Evea Morgan [m.1902] & younger brother Charles; job, moulder for Mr E Elston, Hitchen Rd, Luton : 5ft 3�in 118lbs; 34�in chest expands 2in; fresh complexion; grey eyes; brown hair; C of E; 2 moles on chin, scar of scald right ankle; 3 bad teeth : Attested for 6 years in Militia, 21 Oct 1904; age 17y 6m [so b~Feb 1887 - 1y underage?], previously belonged to 3rd Batt, Vol Bed Reg; medical 13 Mar 1905* Bedford [*??, 6m later, still 17y 6m] : Discharged by purchase 23 Apr 1906 [permitted for �10 in 1st 3m of service; but also permited if underage] army record : [Walter b.Apr>Jun 1888 to Charles & Jane who m.1881]
Thomas Soper (1888-?) Pvt, nr.4458 4th Batn, E.Surrey Reg 1905-6; b.Lambeth, Lon; of 28 Skipton St, Southwark; Gen labourer for Mr Haggis, Brunswick St, Blackfriars, Lon, Sy; Parents Thomas & Elizabeth & younger bro George 28 Skipton St, London Rd, Lon; 5y 3in; weight 106; 33�in; fresh complexion; grey eyes; brown hair; C of E; tattoo dots on left arm; freckled face; Attested for 6y in Miliia at 23 New Kent Rd, Lon; age 17y 8m 1 Aug 1905, medical 4 Aug; applied previously but under weight; Home service for 49d on enlistment; Present 06; to S.Lancs Reg 29 Dec 06 army record
Francis Edward Soper (1887-?) Pvt, nr.6578 4th Battalion, East Surrey Regt & 23rd Bn (Territorials) County of London Reg 1905-11; b.Wandsworth, Lon; home 113 East Hill, Wandsworth; a clerk to George Harding 64 Gt Russel Sq; Enrolled 4th Battn, E,Surrey Reg 11 Oct 05 - 31 Mar 08; Attested 6 Apr 08; at St John's Hill, SW; age 21y 8m [so b~Sept 86]; Pvt 23rd Btn Lon Reg; 1 Apr 08- 21 Oct 08 Private, Efficient; Pvt 23rd Btn; Re-engaged for 4 years, 30 Mar 09; Pvt 23rd Btn; Attended 1 Nov 08 - 31 Oct 09: at Sittingbourne 24 to 31 Jul 1910; at Shornecliffe 1911 army record : [parents James Friend Soper (c1849-1933) of East Hill, Wandsworth; m Eliza 1870 Holborn]
Wilfred Henry Francis Soper (1888-?) Private, nr.3934 4th Btn, Royal Fusiliers, 1905-? & Lance Corporal, 9060 1st Bat, G Coy, The Border Regiment; W H F Soper, porter, age 22y 4m; [so b.~Aug 1887] 5ft 8in; 144lbs (152lbs after 6m); chest 37�in 3in (38� & 5 after 6m) (expansion; fair complexion, grey eyes; brown hair; Heart, dagger & Florrie tattooed on back of right fore arm: Attested 3 Apr 1905 at Houslow for 6y service; age 17y 9m (previously rejected with corn under toe): b.Chelsea, Lon; [so b.c.Aug 1887] home, 17 Brook Green Place, Hammersmith, grocer's porter to Mr Sheen, Hammersmith. : Imprisoned awaiting trial 18 Jul 05; Convicted 27 Jul of absence & def of kit; sentance 14d imprisonment & stoppage of 4�; Gibraltar 2 Nov 1906 (1y 355d): East Indies 23 Oct 1908 (1y 12d) : [1st Bn at Madras, India 1908] : Intended residence, Buckingham Gate Soldiers Home, London, SW; Form sent to Nat Ass for Employment of Ex Soldiers 5 Jan 1910 army record
Ernest Sopper, Gentlemen Cadet, from Royal Military College, to be 2nd Lieutenants 16 Aug 1905 17th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers (London Gazette 15 Aug)
Frank W Sopper of 18th Hussars (Victoria Mary, Princess of Wales' s Own), is seconded for service under the Colonial Office. 3 Oct 1908 (London Gazette 23 Oct) : [see non military biog, Soppers m.1912]
Frederick Soper (1890-) gunner nr.1001461; attested Royal Artillery 1908 R[egular army], age 18y 3m, labourer, b.West Fording, Dorchester, Dor; m.Lydia Stark 1 Oct 1921 Southampton; 11 Apr 1921-2 Jun 1921; Batter? & Victory Medals, France 1918, India 1913-18, Africa 1910-12 ; former service nr.51646; Transferred 24 Jun 1924 Woolwich, Dis to ?, para.484 (vii) KKs; B2042/380; R2079/1187; character good [all other on page v.gd/exemplary]; former nr.51646 scan
Sapper Soper scored 90 for SRE Singapore Royal Engineers (Volunteers) team against Sgts 3rd Middlesex in shooting match on the Balestier range [Singapore] 'Straits Times' 21 Jun 1909
F Soper nr89742 Drvr Long Service & Good Conduct medal register for the Royal Artillery 1910
William Charles Soper [b.cJun 1891?] nr.1005135; attested Royal Artillery 20 Aug 1910 at Weymouth; age 19y 3m; labourer b.Fordington, Dorchester, Dor; India 1911 to 16-17; Mesop 1916-17-18; British War & Victory Medals; Transferred to section B 18 Feb 1919; Mobilised 10 Apr 1921-3 Jun 1921; m.Dorothy Ellen Mayfoot, 26 Aug 1920 at Whitcoombe; regimental nr.62197 31 Aug (23?); Discharged Woolwich 29 Aug 1922 TofE [term of engagement] 1st period, para 32(a) ARR, serial B2079/7412 & B2067/6388, character exemplary; Discharge rank Doe?, address 19 King St, Fordington, Dor scan : [parents George m.Elizabeth 1891]
Charles Soper (1890-?) Private, nr.9927 1st Bat, Loyal N.Lancs Reg, 1910 for 46 days: b.Wandsworth, Lon, Sy; Attained certificate of Education "D" CS: mother Frances Soper, St Giles Workhouse, Bloomsbury; brother Frederick 35 Chestnay? St, Battersea: Attested for 15 Feb 1910 for 7 years & 5y reserves; age 19y 143m [so b~Aug 1890], 15 Feb 1910, a general labourer, previous service in Special Reserve: Discharged, at Tidworth, Andover 30 Mar 1910, defective intelegence, unlikely to be an efficient soldier; Brigade Major added 'This man is perfectly useless as a soldier': Left 1 Apr 1910 (46d service) army record : ['01cen Charles 13 at Essex; b.Wandsworth, Lon]
F W Soper, Gnr: 1st Hants: RGAV [Royal Garrison Artillery], undated, [for medal(s) sale either or all of] Volunteer Long Service & GC, VR : auction site : [a Frank RGA got WW1 service medal] : [1911 a Frank William 31 military at Andover, Hants, b.London]
Miltary Sopers in the 1911 census
WW1
330 Sopers given WW1 service Record Medals : 53 Sopers list of WW1 war deaths
Wills available; WW1 probate www.goc.uk (�6ea)
A Soper L/Cpl nr.411, C Comp, H Batt R Sussex Reg, enlisted 7 Apr 1908?; Territorial Force 5 Oct 1916; Character exemplary; single record sheet from War service [needs rescaning nr.339] : [awarded service medal]
A Soper Sergt RFA [Royal Field Artillery], volunteered Apr 1915? & to Western Front same year. In severe fighting in ? & Albert regions & was wounded. Unfortunatly died of injuries at Dorallers? 23 Sep 1916 & bur.British Cemetery at Wurtencourt, nr.Albert; Entitled to 1914-15 Star & bar; Service & Victory Medals; 'Great deeds cannot die'; 17 Relf? Rd Peckham, SW15 National Roll of Honor : [Arthur Soper see WW1 war deaths]
A Soper Private 10th Queens (Royal West Surrey Reg); Joined Oct 1916 & sent to France 1918. In action throughout German offensive & Allied advance of 1918. Invalided to England early Nov 1918. Received treatment & demobilised Jan 1919; Held Service & Victory Medals; 52 Cornbury Rd, Rotherhithe, SW16 National Roll of Honor : [Arthur Soper, Pvt, Queen's Reg nrG/69958 ??WW1 record Labour Corps & Queens Reg]
Mr A E Soper Addington Rd, Reading, Berkshire : mentioned in Berkshire and The War, compiled 1914-19 : wwww.its-your-history.com ['11cen; 2 Albert Edward Sopers at Wokingham, Berks age 51 & 19 (see Berks tree), so assume the father]
A W Soper appointed temporary Captain from temp Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps : BMJ 7 Sep 1917
Alfred Ernest Soper [Private nr3963 16th Lancers, WW1 service medals]; Segt nr.7815864, attested Royal Tank Corps, New Cross; engine cleaner, enlisted 26 Apr 1921; age 19y 1m; b.1902 Deptford, Lon, Kent [age from 1914]; transfer, MGC (cav) Dec 'B', Army reserve 8 Jun 1921; mobilised 9 Apr 21 & 8 Jun 21; m.Louisa Jefferies Snell 24 Feb 1918 Hatcham, Lon; children Irene Mabel Louisa Soper b.11 Sep 1919 Greenwich & Stanley Alfred William Soper b.4 Dec 1921 Deptford East; British War Medal, 1914 Star & Victory medal; BEF (France) 17 Aug 1914 to 8 Oct 18; discharged 25 Apr 24 Canterbury, reason para 484(vii) FR; Character exemplary; address 11 Union Rd, Bridge, nr.Canterbury; B2079 nrCav/393c; B2067 nr.M/88/CL/968; S/D/A/R 2 years CP 14 Apr 25; RTC Enlistment Records scan : [Alfred m.Louisa Jefferies Snell 1918]
Alvin Edwin Soper b 26 Oct 1898; [b.Oct>Dec Basingstoke]; 1st Driver, Army Service Corps nrT/37545 then Devon Reg then Machine Gun Corps, Victory & British medals & Silver War Badge (issued from Sept 1916 for those discharged ill or injured). Family believe enlisted underage at 15, so 1914?* (though no war badge so unlikely)? : [see family] : [awarded Service Medal for WW1] : [Family belief he enlisted age 15, so 1914 (min age 19) : no Star medal so perhaps not in 1914-5 campaigns]
Archie E Soper, [1st] Private, Royal Warwickshire Regiment nr41345 [2nd] Private, Worcestershire Regiment nr57185 source : medal card from national archives :
Albert Edward Soper (1884-?) Private; b.Poole, Dor: Attested 10 Dec 15; Left Hamworthy Engineering Co; 18 Jul 17 Joined at Woolwich: Sep 18 to York; Oct 19 to Reserve; Home Inglenook, Hinterbourtne Rd, Poole, Dor : Army Record : [parents John m.Blanche Chaffey, Poole 1883]
Alfred Cyril Soper (1899-?) nr.50126 Northampton Reg; attested Dec 1917; age 17y 3m; insurance agent clerk to Royal Liver Friendly Soc of Chatham, Kent; 5ft 5�in; to Calais Apr'18; Aug'18 prisoner of war; repatriated Oct; Discharged fit Feb 1919 address 21 Leopold St, Oxford : [father John Tubb Soper m.1887 Oxford]
Alfred Soper (1892-) b.23 Jan Ifield, Sx; a gardener; Enlisted 26 Jul 1914 territorials Pvt, buglar & drummer; later Corp nr.411 & nr.290774 Royal Sussex Reg; later nr.G/74373 Royal Fusiliers; later (8 Feb 18) nr.783558 29th City of London Batt, London Reg; m.Lucy Martha Allard 17 Apr 1915 New Cross, SE Lon; Wound to foot, Gallipoli 1915; re-enlisted Sgt Jul 1916, discharged 1919; Full military record service record scans : [parents James m.Alice Knight 1891 Horsham]
Arthur Soper b.1885 Deptford; Pvte Labour Corps WW1 record, nr.11961 (4961/36139/178559 Lon Reg/678557) London Reg, Royal Fusiliers, Queens Reg; 1919 British Expeditionary Force, France, Sergeant on demob 1920
Arthur Joseph Soper (c1893-?) nr945093 Driver, Royal Field Artillery, Enlisted; age 22 Private 2nd London Yeomanry, Territorials at Westminster, SW; Nov 1915; posted to France Jan 1917 war records : [parents Joseph Edwin Soper m.Bessie Hallett, Wandsworth 1890]
Bandsman Soper on horn played 'Alice, Where Art Though' came 4th of 4 in brass solo competition at Military Eisteddfod at Pembrooke Dock; 'Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph'; 4 Sep 1918 scan
Bernard Wm Sopper/Soppet/Sopett posted 28 Apr Pvt Royal Fusiliers nr.30903 : Acting Quartermaster Sergeant, whilst employed at a Prisoners of War Camp 27 Dec 1916 to 8 Jun 1917, discharged 1917 : Address; Shaftsbury Road, Ravenscourt Pk?, Lon, W6 : see Military Record [Though a typed letter 1920 clearly states Sopper, the hand written ones says Soppet & Soppett. '11cen census has a Bernard Soppet 30 in Fulham (& other Soppets there); also on www 1950/1]
C E Soper, Sjt. nr91115 London Regiment. (Abbots Langley). ?award of the Military Medal for bravery in the field? (London Gazette 9 Apr 1918) : [nr591115 service medal]
Charles Soper Kings Worthy [nr.Winchester], on Roll of Honour; Wilts Regiment, WW1; served in War Memorial source
Lieut C A Souper 1914-1919 Officer's Record. Armed forces service records ref WO 374/64166 nationalarchives.gov.uk
Charles Soper (c1865-?) Private nr.20854; then 869 Devon Reg; nr.205121, 22 Batt, Rifle Brigade; Next of Kin Caroline Soper (sister) 16 James St, Plymouth; Attested; a hawker Plymouth age 49, 1914; nr.20854; then nr.869; 1916 Egypt & Cyprus 1916-19 Macedonia; Malaria; WW1 records
Charles Soper (1873-?) Sgt nr.86881 RHA & Sgt Major nr.36659 Royal Field Artillery; Attested 1891; Chichester, Gunner Royal Artillery; age 18y; b.1873 Diptford, Dev; m.Mary Ann Purser, Newington, 1894; Zulu Wars 1899-1902; Discharged Sgt 1903; Rejoined 1914 Aldershot, B Sgt Major; served Brighton; Discharged 1920; WW1 records
Charles Alexander Souper, Private 7646, London Regiment; Lieutenant, Monmouthshire Regiment; WW1; WO 372/18; C A Souper, Lieutenant; Officers' Service Record WO 374/64166 National Archives
Charles Edward Soper (1893-) nr.1006229; attested Royal Artillery 11 Apr 1911; Portsmouth [Hants], age 18y 11m; France 1914-1918-19; former n.65178 RH/RFA; a gardener b.1893 Prinsted, Havant, Hants; m.Gertrude Alice Southgate 3 Jul 1917 Cochester; children Philip Charles Soper b.26 Mar 1920 Dedham [Ex]; Ellen Gertude Soper b.25 Oct 1921 & Claude Edward Soper b.19 May 1923 both Westbourne [Sx]; To sect , 'B' A Res 14 Jul 1919; mobilized 11 Apr 1921-5 Jun 1921; re-engaged for 4y 11 Apr 1923 Woolwich A Res BAM Sgt; 11 Apr 1927 2nd period; 10 May 1934 para.497(v111) KR; home Kinstead?, nr.Emsworth, Hantsscan : [Charles m.Gertrude Alice Southgate 1917, Colchester, Ex]
Charles Harry Soper (1894-?) nr.5922 'B' Batt, Leinster Reg; nr.320 Dorsetshire Regiment, 1914; then Sapper/railways painter, nr.R27681 Royal Engineers, Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1917-9, joined age 20, malaria; demobed May'19 WW1 record
Col C W Soper Whitburn commanded the Royal West Kent Yeomanry (he represented Reeves Whitburn & co). From an article about bank staff & war : from the Times 14 Dec 1914 : 728/746n : He was chairman of the War Office's Cinematograph Committee. It was being wound up & it's �72,000 earnings given to charities 25 Aug 1919 : 743/746n Christopher Adolphus Soper nr.S/14/109863 Army Service Corps, 33rd Battery 1915; b.Plympton St Mary, Dev; of 9 Furze Hill, Nutley, Plymouth, Dev; m.16 Jul 1907 Annie Elizabeth Pidgeon Plymouth; Examined Plympton; age 31y 7m; a baker; 139lbs; chest 37>40in; 3 vaccination marks; 5ft 7?in; May 1915; scar on right side of face; Indian Expeditionary Force; Dec 17-Jul 19; WO 363 WW1 record 1914-20
Clarissa M Soper Whitburn, Medal card, rank: Assistant Forewoman, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, Regiment No: 14893 : WW1 record batch 1914-1920 WO 372/23 [see Col C W Soper Whitburn 1914 above] : www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Cuthbert Carlos Soper (1893-) nr.24512 Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, 2/1st Battalion 1915; age 22; residence Birmingham Warwickshire & later nr.43697 14th Hussars, 1919; age 26; Commercial traveller Kings Norton Metal Co, Kings Norton, Birmingham; occupation booking clerk (S); 8 Dec to army reserve; insured by Prudential; 5ft 9�in; chest 37>41in : [ b.1895 Aston; to Rev Edwin Herbert Soper m.Grace Emily Gennard Mallaber, Brazil 1884 when baptist missionary]
C Soper nr.277981 posted from 217 Divisional Employment Company 22 Jul 1918 to GHQ nr.277981 3rd Echelon, 210 Divsl Emp Coy, Labour Corps; from daily orders 3 Aug 1918; WW1 records : [a Cecil 277981 & a Charles 140843 got war records]
C Soper boy nr.49665? 5 Coy, 2nd Bn King Royal Rifle Corp [& many others] attached to 3 Coy for pay & rations 14 Aug 1919 to 29 Aug; from daily orders 16 Aug 1919; WW1 records
E F Soper worker QMAAC; She volunteered Jul 1918; engaged on important duties with her Corps at Caterham & Wimbledon until Oct 1919 when she was demobilised after doing valuable work; 16 Cornwall Grove, Chiswick, W4 National Roll of Honor [??perhaps Ethel Florence Soper b.1895 to James R & Ada m.biog; they lived in Chiswick '11cen]
E K Soper [b.abt Apr 1873] Royal Army Medical Corps nro6963, Attested 25 Jun 1918; 45y 2m; 5ft 7�in; 126lbs; Chest 34�'' expantion 2�''; Occupation Labourer; Remarks; This recruitment register has SR for 'Special Reserve' written on the spine. From Aug 1914 the recruits (mainly older men); Surrey Recruitment Registers 1908-33; findmypast.com : [no EKS vis '11cen; in '81cen Edward Knight Soper, age 8, in Chapel House, Derby with father Wesleyan Minister biog]
E N Soper, from Canadian ASC to be Lt Can. Forestry Corps. 28 Apr 1917 (London Gazette 1 Jun)
Edward Soper: nr28253 11th Labour Battalion formed 3 Jun 1916 & later nr95758 160Coy (Soper�s nr in medal roll of 160 Coy) & ?11th Batt to Le Havre 24 Ju, 1916 source : [not vis in service medal list]
Edward Soper Royal Berks nr95758 Original Regiment nr 28253; incorporated into 160 company, Labour Corps 9 May 1917 which moved to Bapaume to support 5th Army HQ & 30 May 1917 transferred to 60 Group to support IV Corps source
Edward Ernest Soper, [b.abt.Jan 1877] Army Service Corps (category C); Attested 18 July 1914, Kingston on Thames, Special & Extra Reserve, Occupation, motor bus driver, London General Omnibus Co, Putney, 37y 7m; 5ft 4in; 138�lbs; Chest 37�in, expansion 2�in; grey eyes, brown hair, & scars+; Born Wandsworth; Surrey Recruitment Registers 1908-33, findmypast.com (Most recruits for 3rd or 4th Battalions, East Surrey Reg) : [no Edward b.vis bmd, assume Edwin Ernest Soper b.Oct>Dec 1876, Wandsworth ; not vis '11cen, no bus drivers]
Edward Knight Soper nr.154402 Royal Army Medical Corps, 8th Company; 45y 2m; 5ft 7�in; 126lbs; chest 34�in, expansion 2�in; Occupation; labourer/kilnman of 1 Weller Cottages, Woodbridge Hill, Guildford, Surrey; Enlisted Apr 1918; grey hair; fresh complexion; 4 vaccination marks left arm; vision 6/6; Dentally fit; Birthmark on back (Lt); visited Grantham hospital, Blackpool, York; Demob Jun 1919, pay to Sloop Hill, Parkstone, Dorset ww1 records
Elsie May Soper b.Paignton, South Devon, 10 Sep 1894 [assume birth date] National Archives Women's Army Auxiliary Corps: Service Record ref WO 398/207 : [bmd have Devon births, Exeter 1892 & Newton Abbot 1895 - & Elsie M m.Reading, Berks, 1913] : In list of Paignton Women who volunteered for the WAAC in 1917
Ernest Soper Sugden to be 2nd Lieut, Highland (Mountain) Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery 19 Dec 1915 (London Gazette 17 Dec)
Ernest Soper enlisted Royal Regiment of Artillery; age 19y 11m; 5ft 9�in; chest 37�>40in; fresh complexion; blue eyes; light brown hair; C of E; 2y home; 33d India; Aden 3y; Returned to a mental asylem 1915; Character, very good army record : [Ernest b.1895 to to Fred Charles Soper & Mary Ann Brett m.1890, Tendring, Essex]
Ernest Soper Private, 1st Grenadier Guards & Welsh Guards WW1; Sep 1914 sworn Merthyr, age 19; a policeman; to Grenadiers depot, Caterham; Jul 1916 wounded right hand, France; Mar 1918 embarked from UK; shrapnel left knee, France; Feb 1919 Demob & returned to police WW1 record : [parents William Soper m.Mary Ann Berry m.1890, Tendring, Essex]
Ernest Frank Soper enlisted, age 39unm, 2 Mar 1916 Private, Army Service Corps, age 39unm; a motor body maker of 3 Eaton Place, Heavitree Rd. Exeter, Dev; applied to build road in France; 17 Jan 1919 discharged not physically fit after 2y 322d (home) service WW1 record [m.Lydia H Smith , Cardiff 1919]
Ernest Walter Soper Pvte & L/Corp nr.G1291 Middlesex Reg, 1914-17; b.1894, London; WO 364 British Army Service Records 1914-20; b.Bermonsey, Lon, clerk age 21; 5ft 6in; 130lbs; Chest 36>38�in; fresh complexion; blue eyes; brown hair; mole above right nipple; C of E; unm; Father Walter Soper Alston Cottage, Worcester Park, Sy Aug 1914 attested, injured twice in France & discharged unfit Aug 1917 WW1 record; [mDorothy Upperton; 4 Apr 1925 at Chessington]
Evan Thomas Soper nr.S/2/SR/02773 Army Service Corps; attested Exeter Feb 1915; age 37; clerk of 40 Cowick St, Exeter; Previous service with 1st Devon Reg Volunteers; Mar'18 En-route to Egypt; Oct'16 Indian Expeditionary Force; Mar'18 Egypt Expeditionary Force; Jul'19 promoted Corp; May'19 Discharged from RASC, no longer physically fit for war service; Confusional insanity? Aggra?; 70% disability; age 42, unm; 21/- weekly pension; Silver War Badge; military record scans; [b.Jul>Sep 1877 to Thomas John Soper m.Elizabeth Jones 1869, Exeter]
F C Soper nr.4136 Territorial Force , Exe...; on sick & wounded list; WW1; WO 363; WW1 records 1 page scan : [Frederick C, Pvt.4146 Hants Reg got war medal] : [?d.1918 Iran see war deaths]
F H Soper Sgt (A/S M) [acting Sgt Major] of 4th Bn (Reading), Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Meritorious Service Medal. Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 8th Supplement. 30 May 1919 : from www.tlemea.com : also (London Gazette 30 May 1919)
Capt F P P Soper, transport officer, Army Service Corps, East Anglian Divisional Transport & Supply Column, Essex Brigade, Bay Lodge, The Green; Stratford Trade Directory 1912 : [see Frank Percy Philpott Soper Lieut 1902]
F P P Soper, Major from East Anglian Divnl. Train, to be Major 14 Nov Army Service Corps 1916. (London Gazette 10 Nov) : [see Frank Percy Philpott Soper Lieut 1902]
F W Sopper, Lieutenant Colonel, 18th Hussars, also a Captain & Major in same regiment 1914-1920 : National Archives WO 372/18 & WO 372/24 [see 1899]
F J Soper Sgt, 1st Btn, Lincs Reg : awarded the military medal : from London Gazette 3 Jun 1916 (with 100s others) : scan & Times 3 Jun 1916 awarded Military medal: [a Private, Lincolnshire Regiment, nr8025] : [Pvt F J Soper 8025 Lincs Reg (Brighton) in Lon Gazette 1918 & F J Soper Sjt MM 1st Bn, Lincs Reg (High Barnett) in Lon Gazette 18 Jan 1919]
F W Soper gunner 1st Hamps: R.G.A.V :L : Volunteer Long Service & GC, VR : Medals on sale at Spinks: 19 Jul 2007
F W Soper Sgt, nr.317748, 1st Depot Battalion; Attachment, Central Schools, Bovington Camp; Orders 20 Feb; Accomm with effect from 26 Feb 1920; WO 363 British Army Service Records 1914-20; WW1 records 1 page scan
Pvt Frank Leonard Soper (1885-?) Army Service Corps : b.Clapham, Surrey, an architect's assist/clerk; Examined 10 Aug 1914, age 30; 5ft 8�in; 142lbs. Enlisted Whitehall, London 15 Aug 1915 : Embarked SS France 4 Mar 1916 Southampton, disembarked Rouen 15 Mar : Non shooting level 12 Oct 1917 : Simple fracture bones right forearm incurred in field service, ?Hrodigneul, France; 8 Nov 1917, on ship 12 Nov, admitted 2nd Western General Hospital, Manchester 12 Nov; Good recovery, no disability; Awarded ?GGB? 15 Aug 1917, Discharged 30 Mar 1918 (after 139 days); glasses ordered 13 Aug 18; Unit RASC, Reg Nr 117729 : Demobalised, discharged 18 Feb 1919; Unmarried. Next of Kin father ?Thomas? [crossed out?] mother Emily, 49 Gassiot Rd, Tooting : WW1 Pension Records scan [Frank Leonard b.Apr>Jun 1885 Wandsworth]
Fred Soper, (1892-1916), of East Allington, Devon. Died in the Devonshire Regiment, the Somme, France, 20 July 1916 : Web Page about him
Frederick Soper nr.1001461 gunner Royal Artillery; former service nr.51646; 20 Jul 08; 18.3; labourer; To sec 'B' aRes 7 Jun 19; 2 Jun 21; b.1890 West Fordington, Dorchester, Dor; m.Lydia Stark 1 Oct 21 Southampton; age 18; Service & Victory Medals; France 1918; India 1913-18; Africa 1910-12; discharged 24 Jun 26 Woolwich; very good conduct; RA attestations scan [not obvious '11cen]
Frederick Charles Soper Pvt nr.192873: enlisted 29 Jun 1918 Camberwell, Lon, age 18y 4d, a munitions worker; 5ft 2�in; weight 104lbs, chest 32�in; brown hair, fresh complexion, grey eyes, 6/6 vision; fair development; 96 Lab Coy, Labour Corps; Posted 30 Jun 18 Bordon; Home 29 Jul -12 Dec 18; Station Hastings 22 Nov 18; Discharged Physically Unfit for War Service (bad heart from childhood) 6 Jan 19 to Territorial Reserve; Proceeding to Crystal Palace for Demob; b.Camberwell, Lon; WW1 records : [?'11cen Frederick Soper 11 b.Camberwell, Lon; parents William 44 & Amy 44]
Frederick James Soper Pvt, 7808697, attested MS Corps 11 Feb 1919 at Rugeley Camp [Cannock Chase, Staffs]; age 20y 3m from M G Corps 9 Jul 1921; b.Honiton, Dev; trade, shop assistant; father Edward James Soper 55 Abbey Rd, Torquay; medals British War Medal, Victory Medal & Gr.War France 1916-18 medal; discharged 3 Jun 1922 Regents Park under para.392, reduction of estabishment; conduct exemplary scan : [b.1899, Chudleigh to Edward James m.Georgina Ellen Lang 1895] : [assume Pvt Frederick J Soper 29725, Machine Gun Corps on WW1 medal list]
Frederick Thomas Soper Pvt Labour Corps nr.135763; Enlisted & attested 12 Dec 15, age 32y 3d a woodcutting machinist for Trollope & Colls, Camberwell Rd [a builder & joiners]; Home of 39 Lomond Grove, Camberwell, SE5; Transferred Dorset TF Reg & posted to Garrisson Bat 18 Feb 1916; Mobilised 10 Jun 1916, posted 3/21 London Reg, age 32y 7d [so b.abt.3 Jun 1884 (but b.1883 below - so a year older?)]; 5ft 5�in; chest 35�"; Good development; 6/6 vision; b.Camberwell, Lon, Injured L.knee while training 8 Sep 16; hospitalised 21d Winchester to 30 Sep 16; Traveled to medical board, Winchester 18 Oct; Transferred 13 (Works Bat) Devon 10 Feb 17; Posted Lon Div 30 Jun 17; Transferred Labour Batt 25 Apr 19; at 19 Courtfield Gdns SW5 6 Sep 19; Demobbed Crystal Palace 8 Sep 19 after 3y 300d all in Eng; Discharged & transferred to reserve for 2y, 7 Oct 19; scans 224-233
Frederick Walter Soper; enlisted Mar 1915 Army Service Corps; 36y 54d [b.c20 Jan 1879]; 5ft 6�in; chest 36>38�in; 134lbs; eyes 6/9; clerk for Prudential Assurance Co, Lon; Previous service RAMC; wife Rose; 91 High St, High Barnet, Herts; to Sapper, Royal Engineers; Mar'15 to Jun'19 Egypt; Discharged with malaria as 2nd Cprl, RE ww1 records
Frederick William Soper Attested 1 Sep 1914 at Southampton & Royal Defence Corp; then Pvt nr.20502 5th Battalion, Hampshire Reg 1914, age 50. Discharged 27 Feb 1919, service 4 years 180 days all Home Service, age 53, a dock stevedore : see Military Record, wife Emma, born 1865 : [?assume b.31 Mar 1865 S'ton to George Soper b.1838 m.Charlotte Joynt, m.Jan>Mar 1865]
Frederick William Soper master baker, attested 1 Dec 1915 Andover, age 30y 6m; b.Chute, Andover, Wilts; In RA Service Corps to 9 Oct 1918; discharged 27 Feb 1919 Cornwall Gardens [Kensington, Lon] as A/Sgt nr.S4/184841; re-enlisted as Private nr.7869337 / 317748; 31 Mar 1919 until 31 Mar 1923; discharged 12 Jun 1922 Regents Park [Lon], under para.39 reduction of establishment; character, very good; home Beechcraft, Park Rd, Swanage, Dor scan : [not in service medal list, so assume home service] : [m.Emily Ethel Hoare 1909, Hungerford reg dist, Berks]
G A R Soper "alias George Williscroft". WW1 records; 13th Essex Regt, no Reg Nr; The OC in a letter instructed him to insert after the name Soper (which to me is the wrong way round!) source : [son of Florence Rebecca H Soper & William Henry Williscroft m.1880, Plymouth, Dev]
G B S Soper Lieut R A M C Hospital Ship Edani, East Africa : Roll of War Service : from Book of Guy's Hospital men & women in 1914-8 war : www.archive.org : [see George Bertrum Spencer Soper biog : Lieut, Medical Corps 1916-7]
George B S Soper, Temp Lt. Army Medical Corps relinquished his commission 9 Feb 1917 & not as in the Gazette of 22 Jan 1917 (London Gazette 20 Mar)) : [Dr George Bertrum Spencer Soper see]
George Edward Soper to be temp Lt, ?Army Ordnance Corps? 10 Sept 1917 London Gazette 2 Oct : [George E Soper m.Jeanne M Thow Apr>Jun 1914 at Elham (inc Folkstone) : biog medical Sopers]
George Edward Soper nr.159826 34y 360d, dental surgeon, married, Previous service, High Div? Sig Coy 13 Feb 1912 : Took oath 12 Jan 1916 at Folkstone : Height 5ft 9�in; weight 166lbs; 37" chest; Physical Development Good; Examined Canterbury 14 Dec 16; to army reserve 15 Jan 16; Mobilised 4 May 17; posted 4 May; discharged 9 Sep 17 to be appointed a commission (Dental Surgeon to AMC) : Granted Commission RHMC 10 Sep 17 : Born Norwich, Norfolk 4 Dec Next of Kin, wife Jeanne Mildred Soper 147 Sundygate Rd, Folkstone; m.4 May 1914 (Jeanne a spinster): Children Richard George Neal Soper? 15? Aug 1915? Folkstone : Scans 234-7 : [George Edward Soper to be Temp 2nd Lt 10 Sep 1917 from London Gazette 3 Oct 1917] : [George E Soper m.Jeanne M Thow Apr>Jun 1914 at Elham (inc Folkstone) : biog medical Sopers]
George Henry Soper (1868-) attested Territorial Force Jan 1915, Bedford for 4y; age 38 [but 47]; b.1868 Minchinhampton, Glos; 5ft 7in; good vision; good physical development; chest 41>43in; clerk nr.1702 EAD Royal Engineers; Corp'16; needed glasses Mar'18; Sgt'18; QMS Srgt, RE'19; WW1 Record
George Henry Soper Royal Artillery nr78212; Sergt 24th London Reg nr.720514;b.S Brent, Devon 2 Feb 1875; mother Agnes; a groom of 3 Green Terrace, Tregynon, nr Newtown, N.Wales ; Joined Devon Artillery 5 Mar 1890 at Devonport gunner, age 19y 1m; Transferred Royal Horse Artillery, Woolwich; Bomberdier 31 Mar 92; To S.Africa 34 Oct 97 to ? 02? ; Embarked Southampton, Expeditionary Force to France 15 Feb 15 to 22 Jun 17 (2y 101d); ; Terminated 16 Mar 23b.Aldershot : [Full military career]
G H Soper attd. Pvt 2254, Dorset Reg (Plymouth) [others on page has the event mentioned]; Distinguished Conduct Medal Citations 1914-1920 : from findmypast
G J Soper Coy./Q.M.Serjeant, nr3520033 Royal Garrison Artillery 4th AA Coy. (Southampton). (London Gazette 21 Feb 1919) : [service nr21, service medal]
George James Soper (1877-?) Apr 1908 Enlisted; Sgt annual training at Cliff End, [Isle of Wight]; Company Quarter Master Sgt, 57 A A Company, Hants Royal Garrison Artillery; Discharged 28 Jun 1920; [he re-enlisted 1920] 5ft 11in, 199lbs; 43" chest; Blind right eye, cataract; age 43, wife Selina 145 Priory Rd, St Denys, Southampton; [but his] permanent home address 54 Edgill Rd, Staines : [see military biog]
George Norman Soper (c1890-1915) awarded a service medal, a Serjeant nr 11226 in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry , from National Archives ref WO 372/18 : He died Pas de Calais, 6 Oct 1915, aged 25, parents Giles & Elizabeth Soper, living East Dulwich, London. Memorial; Rue-Du-Bois Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix; IA4 [seems, son of Giles Soper b.Padworth, Berks 1847 Rootsweb record] : '11cen age 21 at Camberwell, Lon
Gertrude Soper nr.18335 Assistant cook, Voluntary Aid Detachment; France; British Red Cross Register of Overseas Volunteers, 1914-8
scan : [9 Gertrude over 14 in '11cen]
H Soper of Somerset Light Inf has already been sent parcel; A grand procession took place Mountain Ash to collect funds to provide food for our prisoners in Germany; Aberdare Leader 3 Jul 1915 cymru1914.org : [Herbert Cyril b.1900, Glamorgan to George Wilmot Soper & Decima Robins 1889]
H Soper (temp. Lt, R Fus), granted temp commission as 2nd Lt. (Grade B & to be Hon Lt 1 Apr 1918 (London Gazette 14 Feb 1919) : [Harry Soper temp 2nd Lt 1916]
H H D Soper Temp Lt, 12 Nov 1917 Middlesex Motor Volunteer Corps (a mention) (London Gazette 28 May) & mention London Gazette 30 May 1918 : [?Henry W Dommett Soper? accountant b.1869?] H V Soper Temp. Lt. Machine Gun Corps, relinquishes his commission on account of ill-health contracted on active service & is granted the hon. rank of Lt. 18 Apr 1918 (London Gazette 14 Apr) : [H Vincent Soper, 2nd Lieut, service medal] : [only 'V' in '11cen, Harold V 16 at & b.Derby] : [only 'V' in '11cen, Harold V 16 at & b.Derby : '01cen 6 with Herbert 29 tailor b.Lincs & Louisa 32]
Lieut H Soper Hon sec of the 'Hollow-ware, sheet-metal & pressed work' branch of the Engineering Trades Committee 1918 : from www.tlemea.com : He was also in 1918 on the advisory council for the disposal of surplus government property
H Soper Cpl 254005, name on slip in WW1 record scan
H A Soper 27 Jan 1919, Officer, Deputy Administrator relinquish appointment at own request (?perhaps in section Regular Army officers who held temp commissions in RAF?) (London Gazette 28 Feb)
H J Sopor L.Cpr 122853 921 Rations (attached) "K" Comp/Sqdn: ceased to be attached 27 Apr 1918; Daily Orders entry at ASC Remount Dept, Swaythling; [?perhaps 2nd London Sanitary, RAMC] scan
H W D Soper, temp Lt Middlesex RASC, MT (V), Volunteer Force, relinquish commission 31 Mar 1921 & granted hon. rank of Lt (London Gazette 19 May) [a Henry William Dommett Soper accountant of London but b.1868]
Harry Soper, temporary 2nd Lieut, from a Service Battalion, to be temp 2nd Lieut The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). 1 Jan 1916 (London Gazette 11 Jan) : [2nd Lieut Harry Soper Royal Fusiliers WW1 service medal : coincidence? a Harry Albert T Soper, Pvt, London Reg also got one] & to be Hon Lt 1 Apr 1918 (London Gazette 14 Feb 1919) : [a Harry b.1867 army pensioner]
Harry Soper L/Cpl; reg nr.7770; b.Plympton, St Mary, Dev; 5ft 8in; weight 128lbs; 1st Garrison Br, Devon Reg; Enlisted Plymouth, as Pvt 28 Sep 1904 age 19y 6m, a baker at Richard Dickenson & Co, Army Contractors, Tidworth; Bangalore 11 Nov 07; Mandalay, tonsilitis 24 Feb; Bangalore, dysentery 7-14 Jul 08; Bulford, 2w hospital 1909; Army Reserve 3 Jul 1911; Sick Lon Gen Hosp (concussion? deafness) 28 Nov 14 1915; France 4m & Eygpt/Palestine 3y 5m; Malaria in Eygpt 1919; Demob Discharged, Exeter & transferred to reserve 6 May 1919; 16 South St, Devonport; Harry's full service record : [Harry b.1885, Cornwood, Plympton to James Adolphus Soper m.Louisa Jane bef.1883; '01cen Harry errand boy 14 Plymouth. Dev]
Harry Atkinson Soper (1892- ) Pvt 79019 7th Durham Light Infantry of Ilkeston, Dev; Enlisted a student clergyman Dec 1915 age 23; but Service srtarted Jun 1917; to France Jan 1918; Apr 1918 P of W in Namu 2, Germany; Jan 1919 recovering hospital WW1 records
Henry Soper nr.22181 Army Service Corps, 31st Battery 1915; age 43, b.1872, Exeter, Dev; residence Dev; & nr.304656 ASC, 943rd Area Employment Comp 1919; age 46; from WO 363 WW1 records in BEF in France; [m.Susan Mitchell, m.1903 Exeter]
Henry Alfred Brown Soper bugler; Register Nr.18760, Royal Marine Light Infantry: Plymouth Division, Enlisted 22 Mar 1916; D of B 24 Feb 1902; ADM 159/163/18760; PLY/18760 nationalarchives
Henry Felix Soper Staff Quarter-Master Sergeant, Army Service Corps, age 23 of Bulford, Wilts m.1915, Glasgow
Henry John Soper (1882- ) Pvt 21627 14th Comp, Grenadier Guards; Enlisted Caterham 5 Jan 1915, age 32y 7m; a carman; Discharged 24 Feb 1915, age 32 8m [so b.abt.Jul 1882] as not likely to become a fit soldier; Character good; Service 50days; 5ft 10in; chest 38-40in; Fresh complexion; blue eyes; brown hair; Intended residence Choldenton, Andover, Hants : Jul 1917 a mess orderly, Tidworth, called up for service; A/Cpl 122853, Nr1 Coy, Royal Army Medical Corps, London Sanitary Corps; Mar 1918 Lcpl at Southampton; Oct 1919 Demob; Nov 1919 rheumatism, attributed to service; 30% disablement service record : [m.Ida Margaret Lansley; m.Thrunton?, 29 Nov 1909]
Henry Victor Soper Gunner (1888- ) 273119 Royal Field Artillery; b.1888 St Andrews, Plymouth; wife Mrs Florence Ada Honey Soper 2 King Garden, Plymouth; m.25 Dec 1915 Plymouth; dau Gladys May Soper b.11 Apr 1917 Plymouth; Jun 1918; age 29; job grocers ass; medical cat A1; chest 36-39in; 5ft 7in; vision (6/12 & 6/9); Congregationalist; Enlisted; posted Hilsea [Portsmouth] Jun 1918 22nd Reserve Battery RFA Jan 1919 from 22nd RB, RFA, Boyton Camp, Wilts to dispersal area 8, Chiseldon [Camp, Wilts]; 28d furlough; Feb 1919 Demo; Transferred to Class Z; 22 Sep 1919, 7 days Cromarty Hospital with Myalgis [muscle pain] & a War Hosp; WW1 record/biog
Herbert Charles Soper Pvt 1001, 15th Hussars & Sapper 31689, Royal Engineers; past job, hunting stable; Oct 1905 Attested, Taunton 2nd Somerset LI; 1906 to 15th Hussars; Mar 1912 to S.Africa; May 1913 Transferred to reserves; Oct 1914 1y hard labour, drunk on duty (released May); Jan 1916 to Signal Corp, RE; Jun 1916 Passed exam for proficient rate of Engineer Pay as a Telegraphist, Field Lineman; Signals Reserve Army; Has 5 years; Proved himself a 1st class signaler; Feb 1917 recommended for re-mustering as 'General Telegraphist', 'skilled' rate 1/-; Sep 1917 injured leg in horse fall at riding school; Apr 1918 drunk at camp Abbeville; Mar 1918 to UK long service pay to 76 Dunstable Rd, Luton, Beds; Apr 1919 demob WW1 record/biog
Horace Soper (c1896-?) Sapper Territorial Force 6 Apr EARC Peterborough; then Driver, 3/2nd East Anglian Field Coy RE; 6-23 Apr 1915; 'age 19'; 5ft 4in; 33� chest; good vision; fair development; fit for territorial service; Discharged 22 Jun 15 after 19 days at Luton; Next of Kin Charles William Soper (father) same address 81 Boyle St, Luton, Beds; Full service record scans : [see parents m.1881]
Horace Nettleship Soper temp 2nd Lt. His name is as now described & not as in the Gazette of 10 Aug 1917 (London Gazette 14 Dec) : [Horace Nettleship Soper b.Lambeth Apr>Jun 1882; m.1922 Plymouth), but no Horace vis '01cen & '11cen]
Hugh Christopher Soper (1884- ) Pvt 5305 Royal West Kent Reg & 21955 1st Norfolk Reg; of Cooplerham? Cottage, Exeter, Drelverton?; 29y 30d, a painter, unm, C of E, served 5y in West Kent Volunteers
Hugh Ross Souper, Medal card Captain Royal Army Medical Corps : WW1 : ref WO 372/18 : National Archives : [Hugh Ross Souper (1887-1936) m.Alice Eleanor Milne 1919 : Aberdeen]
Isaac Soper b.Andover 1898; a cycle repairer in TR reserve Sep 1916; Mother: Mary Jane Soper; 1 Clarence Villa Adelaide Rd, Andover, Hants; age 17; Apr 1917 Mobilized & enlisted at WInchester; Private nr.26742 Royal Warwickshire Reg Apr 1918 to France; Demob Feb 1919; Full military record service record scan
J Soper, Private 372609, London Regiment (Walworth). ? Distinguished Conduct Medal? 12 Dec 1917 (London Gazette 11 Dec) : [same details service medal list]
Lieut J L Souper 1918-1921 Officer's Record. Armed forces service records ref WO 374/64167 nationalarchives.gov.uk
J E Soper Windsor, National Union of Teachers Association; NUT WW1 List : [?no JES got WW1 Army Service Medal, so navy?; ??a JES in 1932 Register of Seamen, London; '11cen John Edward Soper 20unm student at training college, Abingdon, Berks; b.Acton, Msx; 1889jjs]
J Soper (M M) rifleman 8th London Reg (PO Rifles); Volunteered Dec 1915. 1 Jan 1917 drafted to Western Front. Engagements inc Aras, Bellecourt, Fassechendaele, Havrincourt. In retreat & advance of 1918. Wounded & awarded Military Medal for bravery in the field 20 Sep 1917. Invalided home & discharged unfit for furthur service Feb 1920? Service. WW1 & Victory Medals; 17 Suffield Rd, Walworth SE17 source
Jack Soper (c1899-) Recruited Chichester 6 Sep 16; 17y 8m, Prvt nr TR/9/6000, 26th Batt Training Reserve; a milkman/plumber?; unm; 5ft 7�in; 33�" chest; fresh complexion; Dark brown hair; of 59 Spencer Rd, Crawley, Sussex; next of kin Alfred Soper father [elder brother]? (same adr) ; Enlisted 15 Feb 17 Horley; Examined Dovercourt 28 Feb; short of breath, constant chest pain; Discharge 14 Apr 17 age 18y 3m at Horley, not physically fit for war service; 22 days service; 60 day pension; Full military record service record scans : [parents James m.Alice Knight 1891 Horsham]
James Soper nr.T/5019 Royal Army Medical Corps, joined 1914 age 34, residence & b.Southampton, Hants; nr.2099 RAS, 2/3rd Wessex; nr.T/1654 Army Service Corps, Hampshire Brigade; & Demobed as Cpr nr.T4/245005 Royal ASCX, 2/3rd Wessex Field Ambulance, 508th Company : [??'James Soper' in his military records (& birth/marriage), but signed once 'James George Soper' (page 8)] : [James m.Mary Maud Cannon Apr>Jun 1904, S.Stoneham, Hants]
James Frederick Soper Private nr.46799 D Company, 25th Reinforcements, Otago Infantry Regiment; previously a motor mechanic, mother Mrs A Soper of Te Houka, New Zealand; mail via Balclutha; sailed on Tofua to Plymouth, Devon, Eng 26 Apr-19 Jul 1917, New Zealand Expeditionary Force Auckland museum
James Lawrence Souper, 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Engineers WW1 : Online Document WO 372/18 : also War Office record 1914-1916 WO 339/4031 : also as Lieutenant WO 374/64167 : National Archives
J Soper Private 'D' Company of 3rd South Battalion of Royal Militia of Jersey; Monthly Pay Lists 1916 Jersey; www.jerseyheritagetrust : [unlikely, but in '01cen a John Soper (c1879-?) Gunner R G A, [Royal Garrison Artillery] at Jersey, 22, b.Exeter, St Thomas, Dev]
John Frederick Soper (1885-?) Pvt John Horace Soper (1885-?) 733 / 75685 2/4th Royal Welsh Fusiliers / 392265 ASC / 674254 SC Labour Corps / 31205 Infantry Transport Driver, Hants Reg; 1 Sep 1914 enlisted Pte, Special Reserve, at Finsbury Barracks; 1 years Service; 1918 to Labour Corp; 1819 to Emp Coy; 1920 Curtis Co; b.Kentish Town, Lon; age 41 [1914], designer 5ft 4�in; 140lbs; chest 32-36�" military scans : [m.Ellen Ada Steele 1902, Holborn]
John Lightfoot Soper Corporal 510357, 58th DS Company (Detached Service), the Royal Engineers. Husband of Emily Hetta Soper (n�e Hancock). Military Medal* gazetted 20 Aug 1919 : devonheritage.org : [*for bravery in the field?] : see (London Gazette 19 Aug 1919) : [John Lightfoot Soper got service medal]
John Rowland Watson Soper (c1862-?) 13 Morley Rd, Twickenham; nr 228 10 Coy, 8th (Res) Bn Middx Regt, age 50, 17 Dec 1914; Private 17 Dec 14; discharged 16 Mar 15 (90 days), transferred to CRO; (already belong to National Reserve 1879-86; 7y); wife Mary Anne Soper, age 43; War Service scans 316-320
Joseph Soper (1894-?) b.Wandsworth c.Feb 1894, factory labourer, attested 8 Oct 1913, 19y 8m; parents Walter & Martha E.brother Alfred (same address) of Royal Fusiliers; Enlisted 10 Oct 13, nr.74516 16th Battery, Royal Reg of Artillery, Kingston; France 16 Aug-27 Dec 14 (137d); Home 28 Dec 14; discharged 9th Reserve Battery RFA 10 Apr 15 after 1y 185d service 10 Apr 1915 age 21y 1m; 45 Point Pleasant, Wandsworth, Lon; no longer physically fit for war service; character good; he joined Royal Navy, enlisted at Chatham : WW1 record
Leonard Soper 66914 Royal Garrison Artillery ; WW1 Record; b.East Allington, S Devon; age 21y 223d, footman, 5ft 7in, 36in-39 chest; 120lbs; Good physical development; 4 vaccination marks left arm from infancy; eyes 6/6; 6 Nov 1915 examined Marylebone; 8 Nov Dover; 6 Dev TV/1; 18 Dec 1915 TV/2;] revacinated at Coods Camp military scans
Leslie Vernon Soper (c1896-?) Private, nr.2092 4th Royal Sussex Reg; enlisted Woking 31 Aug 1914; age 18y 4m; a draper of Brighton, fresh complexion, brown eyes & hair; 5ft 7�in; C of E; considered fit; 'Honest, sober & trustworthy, a smart & efficient NCO', Gratuity not yet sanctioned 17s 7d in lieu of civilian clothing; mother G L? Soper at 66 Ship St; Not posted abroad; Passed for general? service, Woolwich Jan 16; medical report 18 Apr attacks & no breath... dilation of left ventricle... palpitations on slight...; abt Mar 16 at Tidworth; discharged 18 Oct 16 Southend on Sea, no longer fit for active service Dilataion/Myocardium [heart]; age 20y 7m; 66 Ship St, Brighton [address crossed out]; unmarried; invalid board 22 Nov 16 'man is only a private' address Wychmont, St Bernards Rd, Aston, Warwickshire; Med Board 18 Apr 17; no incapacity [benefits?] earnings 35s] : see War service scans : [awarded service medals Lance Serjeant]
Lewis Soper Serjeant nr.M.2/019018, Royal Army Service Corps, Motor Transport attached 145th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (Wimbledon Park). Awarded ? Croix de Guerre? (London Gazette 19 Aug 1919) : [given a WW1 service award as a private] : [parents Giles (1847-1898) m.Elizabeth 1873 Lon]
Maurice George Henry Soper (1892-1919) enlisted 23 Oct 15 City EC, a colt breaker?; Trooper, Royal Bucks Hussars nr2756; Tidworth Military Hosp 5 Dec 16 (40d pancreatitis?); Transferred Pvt Feb 17, 2/1 Northumberland Hussars nr.H/271144; Home service Oct 15-Mar 17; Southampton>Havre BXF?; Wounded (clorine gas shell) Disability, 12/13 Jul; Aug 17 Convelesence until died 21 Apr 1919; mother Mrs J Soper, Padworth Common, nr.Reading. Berks; : see War Service scans
Marshall Thomas Soper, (c1893-?); Prvt,nr.1715 7th Devon Reg; Gnr nr.95171 Tank Corps M G C : enlisted Exeter, of Chiverstone, Kenton, age 23; to France Aug'17, wounded Nov, UK leave Feb'18, Rejoined tank mechanic; Scalded, returned to Eng hospital Oct'18 war record
Noel Beaumont Souper, Gordon Highlanders private nr 28675 & 2nd Lieutenant Royal Berkshire Regiment medical card : WW1 WO 372/18 : National Archives
O N Soper, an apprentice of the 5th Buffs. [East Kent Reg] On The Roll of Honor of The Ashford Railway Works, Kent : www.roll-of-honour.com [presume Owen Norman Pvt, East Kent Regiment, nr1724]
P Souper 1914-1922 Officer's Record. Armed forces service records ref WO 339/106149 nationalarchives.gov.uk
Percy Soper (1890-) window cleaner; Fractured right femur 15 Mar 1915 in Dublin (states he fell 50ft off a building in civil life); posted for duty Manchester 9 Mar 1918 Wenternon? C Labour Corp; discharged 8 Nov 18, age 28 no longer physically fit for war service. Walks lame, cannot walk far, 10% disablement; awarded allowance 8s 3d for 13w : from War service scans 357-363 : [Francis 'Percy' Soper (1890-1979), b.Richmond Barracks, Dublin, m.Esther Tutty, m.1912 Dublin]
Percy Charles Soper Pvt nr16361 3rd Dorset Reg & Sapper 291778 Royal Engineers; Jan 1916 mobilised; home service 122 days to 23 May; then Mesopotania; Sep'18 driver RE; Jan'19 engineer, Light railway, Damascus; Jul'20 demob, home Haifar, Palistine railways WW1 record/biog : [b.1895 to Charles Thomas m.Ellen Susan Woodland 1894]
: [??a Percy Charles Soper b.Jul>Sep 1882 Wandsworth but '01cen 20 a mill mechanic]
Percival H Soper, 43498 Worcestershire Regiment 5734 Private : [1st] Private, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry nr1924 : [2nd] Private, Worcestershire Reg 5734 : [3rd] Private, Worcestershire Reg 202656 national archives
R Soper Sergt 2580 'A' Coy, 2nd Batn, S Wales Borderers; witness; on 5 Dec 1896 I was orderly Sergt of A Coy; Aldershot Court of Enquiry, against 2 Pvtes with absence of kit ww1 records
R G Soper 2nd Lt. Northumberland Fusiliers, restored to the establishment 26 Jun 1916 (London Gazette 4 Jul) : [WW1 service medal no visible] : [Lt. resigns infantry commission 1920]
Richard Hill Soper
R H Soper Sergt 16783, transferred from R Sussex to 3rd Royal Sussex; Battn Orders 3 Jun 1918 ww1 records
R J Soper London University A O D
R W Soper, Sergeant nr745824 to be temp Leuit : 14 Oct 1916. (London Gazette 5 Dec)
Bert Soper just returned from Germany, has not been badlv treated at all, so he says. Nevertheless, he has lost about 2 stones; 'Men from the Mount'; 'Aberdare Leader' 21 Dec 1918 scan : [so a POW]
Reginald Soper (1890-?) enlisted Newcastle 15 Nov 15, age '26y 6m', gardener; nr 231928, gunner 37th Roo battery, Royal Field Artillery; 20 Dec 17 Medical Board, Injury in civil life, not aggravated my military service, permanent incapacity; Discharge Northampton, 10 Jan 1918 physically unfit; 2y 57d service; character v.good, age 27y 2m; b.27 Oct 1890; 5ft 7in, unm, sallow complexion, grey eyes, black hair, mark left upper arm; Giid Shelter?, Salcombe, Dev; Injury in civil life, not agrivated my military service, permanent incapacity : from War service scans 364-367 [scans missing] WW1 record : [Samuel James Reginald Soper 'Reginald' b.Oct>Dec 1890 Kingsbridge RD, Dev to Samuel & Maria Clark Jacka m.1884, Helston, Con : '01cen? a Reginald 10 at & b.East Portlemouth, Dev]
Reginald Soper seems to be this Hussar Soper who assisted Lance-Corporal Fred Aspinall, a Yorkshireman of the 15th Hussars in a rearguard action aginst a large body of German infantry, 27 Aug 1914, during the British Expeditionary Force's retreat from Mons. Soper was in his troop. Aspinall sprang into the saddle, calling out [to Soper]: �We shall have to make a dash for it. 1-2-3!" And away they went at full pelt, zigzagging from one side of the road to the other to make as difficult a target for the enemy as possible. Aspinal got shot, became a prisoner & won a DMC medal. source Presumably Soper escaped [There were 3 other Soper Hussars : pvt Herbert C Soper, Hussars nr1001; pvt William H J Soper 19th Hussars nr16908 & Capt F W Sopper, refWO 372/24]
Staff Sergt Rowland Soper sung humorous song. 'The Farmyard'; Bucks Herald, Bucks 1 Apr 1916 : [no Rowland in WW1 service medal list]
Mr Rowland Soper, an accomplished pianist and humorous vocalist, was rapturously applauded in both his songs 'Love in the Lowther' & 'The three... South Bucks Standard Bucks, Engl; 28 Nov 1890.
Richard Charles Soper (1896-) nr.1409848; attested Royal Artillery 1914 regular army for 8/4 years, age 18y 196d, a baker of Holloway, Lon; British War Medal & Victory Medal & 14-15 Star; transfer from Corps B 5 Dec 1922; former nr.41060; b.1896 London; Re-engaged 19 Jun 1926 Section D; Discharged 18 Jun 1934 para 497(viii) KR scan : [b. not vis bmd; or in '11cen] : [?a Richard C Soper, Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery, nr41060 in WW1 medal list]
Richard Frederick William Soper (1888-), Private nr.1236 10th Scottish Batt Territorial, The King's Liverpool Reg 25 May 06-7 Apr 08; attestation as Lance Corp, Liverpool 8 Apr 1908, age 19, unm (labourer's or) laboratory ass; b.Rock Ferry; 13 Beech Rd, Rock Ferry, Birkenhead, Chestershire; Present Mar 09; 2 week Camp Jul 10; Re-engaged 28 Mar 11; 2w camp Jul 11 & Jul 12; re-engaged 7 Apr 13; Discharge to Territorial Reserve 3 Apr 14, father Richard Frederick Soper 13 Beech Rd; from War service records
Richard John Soper attested Sapper, Royal Engineers (joined territorials Jun 1907); b.Stoke Newington; 21y 8m; compositor for Potter Bros; 5ft 3 1/2in, 34>36 1/2in chest; next of kin, James Soper (father) 16 Fleetwood St, Stoke Newington; Aug 1909 7d annual training; Pvt RE, at Bexhill on Sea Record scans : [Richard John m.Emily Frampton 1913, Hackney, Lon]
Richard Thomas Soper Joined Army Service Corps, Sapper, Mar 1915, & straight to France for 4y 3m; promoted Col labour corps & Quartermaster Sgt 1919; address 151 Waterloo Sq, Camberwell & Agnes at 133 Brookdale Rd, Catford, London record scans : [m.Agnes Lifford 1913, Lewisham]
Ronald Garland Soper, from the Inns of Court Officers Training Corps, Lance Corporal to be 2nd Lieut & seconded for duty with a Provisional Battalion. The Northumberland Fusiliers 17 Sept 1915 (London Gazette14 Sep) : [see grandfather William Garland Soper's biog, Surrey] : [22 in '11cen] : [no WW1 service medal?]
Roland George Soper (-?), a naval architect b.7 Oct 1884 Southampton; attested 5 Nov 1915, address La Casa, Thornbury Ave, Southampton; Enlisted 14 Feb 1916, Birkhamsted; 5ft 5�in, 38� chest; C of E; Prvt Inns of Court, Officer Training Corps nr.7337; appointed unpaid? L/Cpl 1 Apr-2 May 16, character good; Discharged 29 Apr 16 being appointed on ... Engineer in Royal Indian Marine for important work in Mesopotamia; Next of Kin Joseph Manston Soper of La Casa : [see full war record]
Ronald Soper (1897-?) Sapper 340966, 49 Signal Coy, Royal Engineers of 59 London Rd, Salisbury, age 18y 8m, 5ft 10in, chest 35�-39�" telephone linesman, no previous service; Next of kin Mrs Henry Soper of London Rd; Mounted Field Linesman; Wounded by gas France Oct 1918 record scans : [b.1897 Salisbury, Wilts to Henry Felice Soper m.Agnes Emily Harrison who m.1885, Dunsfold, Sy]
Second Lieut S J R Soper, Innis? Fusiliers : Wounded List : from Guardian paper, 17 Oct 1918 : [S J Soper cadet 1917]
S L Soper Enfield, National Union of Teachers Association; NUT WW1 List : [3 Pvt Samuel L's got WW1 service medals; Cyclist Corp; Lancashire Reg & E.Surrey Reg] : [speculate an Enfield brand, bike connection possible??] : [assume '11cen Samuel Leycester Soper 32, Edmonton, Lon teacher '11cen]
S R Soper Exeter City, National Union of Teachers Association; NUT WW1 List : [ '11cen 19unm student at St.Lukes College (diocesan training), Exeter; a Serj WW1] : [m.Gertrude Ash 1919, Exeter]
Samuel Saphier War Office: Soldiers' Documents, First World War (ie 1914-1920) : WO 363/S 1536 : National Archives
Sidney Carey Soper Pvt 173286 3/5th Works Company, 13/3 Devon Reg; decorator of 25 St Anns Rd, Polsloe Pk, Exeter; Enlisted, Exeter 11 Dec; & to Army Reserve 12 Dec; 34y 2m; Medical board, b.Exeter, 5ft 6in, chest 33-35in; 125lbs, [later 5ft 5�in, 119lbs, chest 33�-36in] fair development, vision 6/18; medical class BII, labour; Attested & joined for duty for duration of war at Exeter; 17 Jul Mobilised Exeter Pvte 13th Works Coy; 2 Aug to Fovant; 3 Sep 1917 Discharged due to illness of wife; Transferred to Army Reserve, Class W; 1 Mar 1919 Discharged; Service 11 Dec 1915 to 1 Mar 1919; totaling 3y 9d : Pension 2y 48d WW1 record/biog; m.Henrietta Mabel Payne 1914
Stanley George Soper (1887- ) Sapper & Cpl 264519Z Royal Engineers; mobilised Apr 1917 Cricklewood, NW & service started (Jun 1916 Enlisted for duration of war, but not called-up); May 1917 passed trade test, Chatham, Superior Architectural Draughtsman & requested move from London Electrical Engineers, Regency St, Lon, SW1 to 6th Provisional Co, RE, St Marys Barracks, Chatham, He's a C1 man & his elder brother already serves in the unit; Jan 1918 applied for transfer; May 1919 promoted 2nd Cpl; Oct 1919 M.O.L.EE, OC Dept, RE; Returned to London from temp duty to Chief Engineer, Eastern Command; Oct 1919 dispersal unit, Crystal Palace, Lon WW1 record
Sydney James Soper 10500 Inns of Court Oficer Training Corps; b.Charles, Plymouth. Dev; Dec 1916 Enlisted Cerntral London, Recruiting Depot; a famer, 24y 207d [or 23y 7m], 5ft 6in, 140lbs, chest 35-39in, good physical development, 3 vaccination marks, 6/6 sight; good character; fit for service home & abroad; Jan 1917 Enlistment, Army Reserve, Inns of Court Oficer Training Corps nr.10500; Feb 1917 stamp TF Record Office WW1 record
Sydney James Soper. E. Innis. Fus Local Reserve cadet to be temp 2nd Lts (att'd). 29 Aug 1917. (London Gazette 25 Sep) : [2nd Lieutenant, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers received war medals] : [not visible BMD] : [an S J R Soper on Wounded List : from Guardian paper, 17 Oct 1918]
Sidney James Soper (1896- ) 528320 Signal Corp Co, Royal Engineers; 133 North St, Luton, Beds; father James; 9 Mar 1915 Embodied, Driver, 2051 Signal Corp; 4y Territorial Force; 17y 189d; C of E; 18y 6m; vision good; Physical development, fair; Chest 34-36in; Jan 1918; Dec 1917 Embarked Southampton to Port Said; May 1919 Appointed A/L/Cpl; Jun 1919 Embarked Port Siad for UK, on 'Ellenga'; Jul 1919 Demob at Chatham; WW1 record : [m.Edith F Coleman Jan>Mar 1923 Luton, Beds]
Sidney John Soper A/Bombardier nr.40905, Royal Field Artillery; attested 23 Oct 1914, age 19y 8m, b.Russell, clerk & typist. 5ft 8in, 132lbs, Appointed acting bombardier 27 Feb 1915. To France 29 July 1915. Next of kin mother Mrs Kate Soper, The Infirmary, Saffron Walden [a nurse there '11cen]. Medals sent to John R W Soper [uncle] 1920. WW1 record scans; Killed in action, Somme 7 Sep 1916 age 20
T R Soper, Scotland, Royal Naval Air Service : mentioned in Berkshire and The War Surname List, compiled 1914-19 : www.its-your-history.com [no T Soper received a service medal in WW1 & seems not Pvt Thomas Rundle Soper Notts & Derbyshire Reg below]
Thomas Soper (1888- ) nr.8513 A Comp, 1st South Lancashire Reg, Port Pridi?, India; age 32 in 1919 after brother killed; see his WW1 army record : [1st Btn in Quetta, Baluchistan, NW Frontier wiki] : [parents Thomas m.Elizabeth Ewington 1888 St Saviour, Southwark]
Thomas Soper (1888-) Pvte, 11933 6th Batt, Loyal North Lancs; b.Bolton Moor, Bolton, Lancs; 25y 147d, carter, out of fathers house for 3y; married 1/3rd of Regt Pay; age 25y 147d, 5ft 4 3/8in, 121lbs, chest 36-38�; good physical development; tattoo, right forearm, 'heart in loving memory of Annie Carroll', C of E; 4 vaccination marks left arm; eyes 6/36 & 6/6; joined 24 Aug 1914, discharged 22 Oct after 58d; Medical unfitness record scans : [Thomas b.1888 Bolton to Frederick [William] Soper 22 labourer m.Mary Jane Lloyd; who m.1878]
Thomas Soper (c1892-?) private nr.3929 5th (1st Res) Batt, Seaforth Highlanders. Attestation 19 Jan 1915, 51 Smith?/Milk? St, Bolton; physical development good, vision good, Home service until Discharged 10 Apr 1915 at Bedford, found unfit for military service due to bad eyesight, age 23y 3m, 1y 80d service, 5ft 4�in, 154lbs, 36�" chest, a collier, 49 Rodwell St, Bolton; good character; Next of Kin wife Elizabeth Soper: from War service scans 384-392 : [assume Pvt overseas '11cen] : [Thomas m.Elizabeth A Murphy Bolton Oct>Dec 1911]
Thomas Soper (c1889-?) private nr.11933 4th Batt L North Lancs, from Bolton, Lancs. Attestation 26 Aug 1914 at Preston, a carter 25y 147d; fit for army; 5ft 4�in; 121lbs; chest 36"; CofE; heart tottoo right forarm, 'in loving memory of Annie Carroll'; (out of fathers house 3y+ - yes) married [have you been rejected for military service-'no']; Tidorth 22 Oct 14; absent from tattoo 25 Sep 14; not likely to become an efficient soldier (maucal? unfitness) 22 Oct 14; 58d service : from War service scans 393-398 : [perhaps in Bolton prison 19 '11cen]
Thomas Soper (c1879-?) Gunner nr.55885, 13HB, Royal Garrison Artillery, born Chumleigh?, Dev; a skilled labourer at Forthergill Bro, Castle St, Exeter; joined 8 Dec 1914, Exeter; 35y 30d; 5ft 10�in, chest 38", 154 lbs 6/6 eyes, good development; France 2 Jun 15 (6m); Embarked Marseilles 16 Jun 16; Salonica 3y 3m; UK leave 26 Oct 18 (12d) Medical Exam Salonica 7 Mar 19, 'I had a little shoulder rheumatism on joining, but made worse by getting wet & sleeping on the ground'-less than 25% disability; Embarked Selonica for UK 21 Mar 19; Discharged 5 May 19, 2 Barley Cott. Havin Rd, Exeter, Dev; Health Insurance 'Ancient Order of Druids': from War service scans; address Barley Cottage, Havin Rd, St Thomas, Exeter; WW1 record
Thomas Rundle Soper (c1889-) Nov 1915 Attested & to army reserves; Oct 1916 nr.5845 2/8 Sherwood Foresters; Aug 1917 Posted Pvte home service; Aug 1917 to France; Jul 1918 medical board at Mil Hosp, Ripon; Pte, 307184 Notts & Derbyshire Reg; sickness due to active service, age 42y 8m & discharged 21d later; Apr 1932 4 letters from T R Soper, 10 Passmore St; urgent request about war service back & reserve pay; I am in dire distress & need this money for rent..., I served 1y 319d under the colours & 308d in Army Reserve 29 Nov 15-3 Oct 16; discharged from the front line until discharged as unfit for war duty. I received pay in Ireland & in France, but nothing more. Application rejected : Discharged, Aug 1918 Pte, 307184 Notts & Derbyshire Reg full record : [m.Sarah Jane Caddick 1908]
Victor E Soper 703397 Pte 10 Co Ex Rhodn Regt; Pte 2634 City of London Yeomanry & Pte 7158 1st London Regt to Royal Engineers (WR/308312) : recorded separately for WW1 service medals source Identifing soldiers in 10Co 2Bn ICC : [10th Company, Imperial Camel Corps?]
Victor Horace Soper (c1884-?) born 21 May 84, metal worker, Enlisted 28 Jan 13; nr.961636 gunner, (& Lc/Bdr), London Royal Field Artillery; France 18 Mar 15 to 17 Dec 16; Landed Havre, France 18 Mar 15; 14d for 'irregular conduct to NCO' 26 Aug 15; Left foot severely crushed, an accident at Ypres (a shell caused horses to round & gun wheel ran over foot) ; Wimerreux? 9 Dec 16; transferred to Eng 18 Dec 16, 20% disability : Hospital 7 Aug 17 to 5 Mar 18 foot; Dysentry Oct 16-May 17; Transferred 21 May 18 age 34; Pension (26w) to 17 Nov 19, painful, walks on edge of foot. Next of Kin, Mrs Soper (mother) 136 Ebury St, Westminster, SW1; Employer Vickers Ltd, Erith; request to be repatriated to the Alberta farm of brother Frank : [see WW1 record]
Vivian Soper, Lance-Corporal from the Inns of Court Officers Training Corps to be 2nd Lieutenant, 4th Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment. 21 Feb 1915 (London Gazette 19 Feb) : 2nd Lieut to Tep Lieut Dorset Reg 25 Sep 1915 (Lon Gaz) : & Vivian, Lieut, Dorset Reg on WW1 service medal list
: [?'11cen perhaps Vivian Donald Soper 14 with parents Vivian James Soper 37 accountant & Ada Ellen 37 at Bridgewater S.set : family in S.set '81cen] : [a Vivian Soper, Lieutenant Dorset Reg got WW1 service medal] : [father? a V Soper, Colour Serjeant, Somerset Light Infantry, nr508] : [??or perhaps Vivian b.1892 Sx to William & Florence Beatrice Dudfield m.1885 ]
W Soper, 2nd Lt. Dorset, K,TF 17 Jun 1917 to be acting. Lt whilst 2nd in Command of Trench Mortar Battalions. (London Gazette 23 Nov)
W Soper, Amalgamated Society of Paper Makers; Union branch Higher King's Mill, Cullompton, Dev; Lists of members on active service [fmp] : ['11cen William 33unm paper maker, at Cullompton scan]
W Soper, private, 20th Machine-Gun Squadron. His home address, 36 Brandon Buildings, Clifton, Bristol. In list of Sdrn members from book "Through Palestine with the 20th Machine-Gun Squadron" pub 1920 : Gutenberg.org [Formed from Nottinghamshire Yeoman & Hussars & sent to Egypt 1917, disbanded Oct 1919]
W A Soper, Cpl nr200074 (A./L./Sjt.), l/5th Bn. (TF) East Surrey Regiment, notice for distinguished & gallant services & devotion to duty, by Lieu Gen Marshal, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force [in Persia] 7 Feb 1919 (London Gazette 9 Jan 1920) : [assume Corporal nr.1043 & Serjeant nr.200074 East Surrey Regiment : a William A Soper, (Surrey Corps) given a service record] : [? most likely '11cen William Albert Soper 17 at Croydon, Sy, father a soldier biog; (but possibly William Alfred T Soper b.1874 Kensington, Lon, son of Alfred Albert & Rosa Trant m.1873)]
W C Soper, 117 Quartermaster Sergeant (QMS) Group portrait of officers and NCOs of the 9th Machine Gun Company, at Meteren*, Western Front, France : 7th from left middle row : source : Australian war memorial : [*taken from the Germans Oct 1914 & lost again Apr 1918]
W E Soper, trooper Westminster Dragoons, before enlisting worked as office clerk for 'The College Lay Staff' [possibly The Red Cross College?] in London Hospital Gazette 1914/15 45 staff members listed in the services, p67, source : [William Edward b.c1882; grparents William Henry m.Emma Stephens 1857]
W H Soper 12th Batt (2nd Southdowns) [Sussex Reg], to be temporary quartermaster with hon rank of lieutenant, 4 Nov; 'Bexhill-on-Sea Observer' (pub.Sx) 27 Mar 1915
W H Soper 26 Nov 1917 on list of temporary Quartermaster & Hon. Lt. to be Hon. Captain (London Gazette 7 Dec)
W James Soper on Andover war memorial WW1, parish records
W Soper (1896-?) Suffolk Regiment (12th Batn); Attested 11 Nov 1915, Putney; 19y 0m; 5ft �in; 112 lbs; 33�in chest, 2� expansion, labourer b.Wandsworth; remarks 45 Point Pleasant, Wandsworth : [?a : William Charles Soper b.Apr>Jun 1896, Wandsworth]
W J Soper (c1896- ) Royal Engineers, Attested 5 May 1915 at Croydon; an electrician; 19y 1m; 5ft 8in; 131lbs; 35'' chest expands 2''; Born Lambeth; from Surrey Recruitment Register p46; [no WJS in Croydon '11cen : assume William John Soper b.Apr>Jun 1896, Marylebone, Lon; but also a William James F Soper b.Oct>Dec 1896, Epping, Ex & William John Soper b.Oct>Dec 1895, Toxteth Park, Lancs] ; [no WJS war service medal]
Walter Soper (c1878-?) Gunner 1774630 Royal Field Artillery Oct 1915-Jun 1919; to France Jun 1917; a meat inspector of 36 Vienna Rd, Bermondsey, SE Lon; age 36y 11m; (by 1919 Signaller RFA, address 36 Bevington St, Bermondsey) WW1 record/biog : [m.Eleanor Mary Thomas m.1904 at St Mary Magdalene]
Walter Soper Mitchell (c1879-1916) Private, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Unit Text: 67th Coy. died age 37, 17 Feb 1916, Service No: O/1222, wife Emily Ellen Mitchell, of 27, Norton Terrace, Climsland R : Paignton Cemetery ref 2445 source from Will O'Brien reply; b.Torquay : Died - Home : '01cen Walter 22 house decorator - painter with parents Frederick & Mary Ann, 2 brothers & 2 sisters in Paignton. In London? as 1st & 3rd children b.Paddington & Walthamstow : Walter Soper Mitchell m.Emily Ellen Jeff; ery Jul>Sep 1903 Totnes, Dev. source ['11cen 32 at Totnes] : ['81cen Walter S. MITCHELL, Son, Male, 2, b.Torquay Dev with parents Frederick 29 house decorator & Mary Ann 30 both b.Totness, Dev]
Wilfred John B Soper (1897 - ) Sapper & L/Cpl 454821, 609 Cardiff & Barry Fortress Coy, Royal Engineers; May 1916 18y 6d, electrician's apprentice to E Gincott, 14 Alshington, St, Exeter; 5ft 7�in; 116 lbs; chest 32�-35�in; good physical development; eyes 6/6, Baptist, Dental attention required; an Electrician on Defence, electric lights; Demob 17 Sep 1919 WW1 record/biog : [Wilfred b.1897, Exeter to John Martin Soper & Annie Florence S Harris who m.1890]
Willard Sherwood Soper, Private b.20 May 1896 Redwood, New York (son of Martha Agnes Soper, Brockville, Ontario) student; single; no military service; Methodist; 5� 7�"; fair complexion; brown eyes; auburn hair. Joined 59th Batt, CEF, 22 April 1915; transferred 38th Batt, CEF 22 Jun 1915 (nr. 410405) - served with 38th, garrison duty, Bermuda; Landed France with the 38th Batt 13 Aug 1916; wounded 1 Nov 1916; Invalided to Eng 11 Nov; Later served with reserve units. source
William Soper (c1895-?) labourer, 45 Point Pleasent, Wandsworth, Attestation, volunteers 11 Nov 1915 at Putney age 19y 0m b.Wandsworth; unm; nr24651, Pvte B Coy, 12th South Lancashire Reg, 5ft �in, 112lbs, 33�" chest expands 2�", father William Walter Soper; CofE; Joined at Bury St Edwards, Suffolk 12 Nov 16; 5d CB reporting sick without a [cause?] 20 Jan 16 Blackdown?; Discharged not being likely to become an efficient soldier 22 Jan 16 (73d service) : from War service scans
William Soper (c1880-?) nr.8502 b.Barking, waterman; married; Attested 3 Sep 1914 at East Ham; declared age 34y 7m, Joined Woolwich 4 Sep, Royal Regiment of Artillery; discharged not being likely to become an efficient soldier; 19 Sept (17 days service); wife Elizabeth Soper, son John Soper of 43 Creek Mouth, Barking, Essex; 5ft 3in, 140lbs, 24y 7m, chest 37", grey eyes, dark hair, florid complexion, 'scar left side of chest';
William Soper (c1887-?) b.St Lawrence, Jersey, gardener, Pvt 1st Reg Jersey Light Infantry; Jersey Militia; Attested at St Helier, Jersey, 17 Jul 1899; age 18; Joined Aldershot 21 Jul 99; Served 21 years Royal Army Medical Corps; S Africa 9y, Mauritius 2�y, Brit Ex Force, France 5y; biog
William Charles Soper nr.287750 Army Service Corps (Mechanical Transport); a motor driver of 2 Granville House, Tetcott Rd, Chelsea; b.Battersea 1896, father William Arthur Soper' Attested 20y 9m; unm; 5ft 3in, chest 32-33�in, 112lbs, green eyes, dark hair, pale complexion, with ##pain & rheumatic fever, ? on left palm, C of E; job Motor Car ##?; Called-up Feb 1917 : demob Dec 1919; records : [William C b.1896, Battersea to William A motor mechanic & Elizabeth Anne Davies, who m.1895, Chelsea]
William Cousens (Soper?) won a cup 'Regimental Seargent Major William Cousens, 2/5th Hampshire Reg'. Understand Reg was TA & he went to France at start of WW1, then onto Egypt, Palestine & India. At end of WW1 turned down offer of a commission in India. Cousens RSM 240009 awarded gallantry medals of DCM & French Croix de Guerre transferred late 1918-19 to 1/4th Bn, Wilt Reg RSM nr209292 - "A mystery - he m.Ellen Harris as 'William Soper' but entered army as Cousens" : from their gr.grandau Kate Robinson full source : [1911 census connection? a Henry Soper Couzens, 50 at Portsmouth, Hants]. Do you know how old he was & when William married? Speculate his high NCO rank meant his territorial career & Cousens surname existed well before WW1, perhaps even before his wedding? : William Soper m,Ellen G Harris, South Stoneham, Hants Jan>Mar 1912 from bmd (which lists 28 Cousens marriages in S.Stoneham) : ['11cen; 2 William Cousens in Hants, 22 at Alresford : 44 S.Stoneham]
Private William George Soper b.Peckham, M.sex 1892, trade tailor 5ft 2�in, 115lbs Reg Nr 54610 (crossed out 2436?? & 37272) , 21 Prospect Rd, Hythe, Kent
William Henry Soper to be temporary Quartermaster, with the honorary rank of Lieutenant. 26 Nov 1914 (London Gazette 23 Mar) : [W H S temp Quartermaster 1917] : [William Henry Soper (1865-?) Quartermaster Sergeant, Kings Own Scottish Boarderers biog]
William James Soper (c1883-?) Driver, nr.T16306, Royal Army Service Corps; 18y 6m; 5ft 5�in; 115 lbs; Chest 32in, 33in expanded; fresh complexion, blue eyes, black hair, Wesleyan, Tattoo pick & shovel; 5 small blue spots & 2 lines left forearm & wrist; passed fit 28th; joined 26 Jul 1900 to No.39 co, Devonport; Jul 1903 reserves; age 21y 6m; 5ft 7�in; Jul 1904 terminated his engagement & transferred to reserves; Aug 1914 mobilised at Aldershot; to France; Mar 1915 to Eng; 18 May 1915 with 14y 298d service & pension at 4/8 per week for life' issued a service armlet; disability not attributed to active service WW1 record : [m.Lilian Ann Beer 1905, Plymouth]
William John Soper (1873-?) clerk; Enlisted, London 19 Oct 1914 Private nr2237 Pay Corps; age 41y. Discharged Unpaid Acting Co? & Patricia? Harding Soper) : [?see WW1 military record]
William Soper Wilson Private. Medal card, Royal Army Medical Corps, Regiment No: 568 Rank: WW1 record batch 1914-1920 : WO 372/22 : www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
William Sydney Soper (1887- ) Sgt 90576 Royal Garrison Artillery; Dec 1915 attested at Battersea, R G A, publication manager of 37 Tregarvon Rd, Battersea, 28y 11m, 6ft 0�in; chest 39-41in; b.2 Jan 1887 at Aldgate, Lon; Mobilized May 1916 medical photographer, 29y 4m; 6ft 0�in; 158lbs, chest 37-39in; vaccinated; eyes 6/9; Sep 1916 appointed A/Cpl 201st Heavy Battery; Jan 1917 Le Havre; Apr 1918 joined 2nd RFA Officer Cadet School, Topsham Barracks, Exeter (from 1st Lowland Heavy RGA); Jan 1919 discharged, a Sgt WW1 record/biog : [b.Sydney William Soper; William S m.Leni Karola Moser 1914 St George Hanover Sq, Lon]
William Thomas Soper granted temporary rank of 2nd Lieut, in Indian Army 19 Mar 1918 (London Gazette 5 Nov 1818)
William James Walter Soper (1897-1940), portrait as a soldier in Egypt 1916 in a, ancestry.com record : [William James W Soper b.Oct>Dec 1897 Pontypridd (??perhaps parents John & Mary A)]
William Walter Soper (1898- ) Pvt 20570, Queens Own, Royal West Kent Reg; Sep 1916 attested, Holloway, Lon, age 17y 9m, b.6 Dec 1898 Islington; printers apprentice at 7 Lampeter St, Shepperton Rd, Islington; Feb 1917 Medical at Whitehall; had choroea 2y ago; age 18; Jan 1918 Transferred to 7th Batn, The Queens Own, Royal West Kent Reg & to France; Mar 1918 Missing in Action; Captured at Moy; POW in Germany; Jan 1919 Repatriated to Eng; Oct 1919 demobed biog/WW1 record
W Soper, Lance Corp, D Squadron, 3rd Reserve Regt, cavalry, East Cavalry Barrracks, Aldershot; wrote letter to Imperial War Museum 23 Jan 1918, saying he posed for photo 22 Jan, to be entiled 'A Typical Cavalry Soldier' & asked if he could purchase copy. He'd been told he could only obtain it from IWM; W Soper's 2nd letter sent 3 Feb, added 'photo taken 22 Jan, eventually to hang in Royal Academy (IWM was collecting photos for a 'Memorial to the Fallen' in 1918); source; Imperial War Museum curator replied, 5 Feb 1918; 'kindly give details where photo was taken & name of photographer & I'll see if I can trace it. At present, we've no photo identified as yours" scan : [not obv in WW1 medal list]
Scotland units in WW1 : Service Medals (issued to all servicemen) 1914-1920 : from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Lieut O N Soper IARO. (101st Grenadiers) arrived & joined the 2/153rd Punjabis 14 Jun 1919 [to fill vacancy] . They'd mobilised for war in May [Third Afghan War, after proclaiming jhiad against Britain]. In July after training, by train to Bombay, 783 men 11 Brit & 20 Indian Officers, ship to Karachi, then on foot. When Britain recognised Afghan independence in Aug, reg at Lakaband with 609 men & 12 Brit Officers : source [101st, an Indian reg : IARO=Indian Arrmy Reserve of Officers] : [presume Pvt Owen Norman Soper, Kent Reg]
Mr Soper, a wounded soldier, went into Eagle Pond, Wanstead [now London, E11]. He recovered Nelly Perry, age 34, who jumped into the pond, after leaving a suicide note. She was prosecuted & handed to the Salvation Army for 1 month : from the Times 3 Jun 1919 : 741/746n H N Soper Temp 2nd Lt to be temp Lt 11 Jan 1919, relinquish commission on completion of service (London Gazette 9 Nov 1920)
R H Soper Temp 2nd Lt, to be temp Lt, 29 Nov 1919 (London Gazette 3 Feb 1920)
Charles Stanley Soper (1897-) nr.1419473; attested Royal Artillery 1920 at Exeter, for 8/4 years, a quary mau. b.Lodiswell, Kingsbridge, Dev; age 23y 4m; father George Soper of Station Rd, Loddiswell, S.Dev; discharged 20 Mar 1926, Rhine, physically unfit for service 'B108/?'; rank Gunner, conduct v.good; pension 8d a day for 27m or equivilant gratuity of �27 7s 10�d @ �1pw; Former service Royal Navy 3y 286d; Re-enlisted Royal Engineers 25 Jun 1940, also nr1921890, scan; a naval seaman WW1
Frederick Pitt Soper attested 1920, Honourable Artillery Company: home 91 High St, Barnet, Herts, Hon Artillery Co's vellum membership book scan : [b.1903 Shepherds Bush to Frederick Walter & Rosie Griffith m.1902, Greenwich]
R G Soper Lt. resigns his infantry commission, 25 Feb 1920 (London Gazette 24 Feb) : [ 2nd Lt. Northumberland Fusiliers 1916]
E J Soper 2 Dec 1920, Temp Capt granted rank of Major, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (London Gazette 18 Jan) : [mentioned in despatches 1918]
F H Soper Sjt nr123 (A/SM), 4th Bn, R. Bde : Salinika [Greece?] : [?perhaps a Meritorious Service Medal?] (London Gazette 26 Oct 1920)
William H J Soper (1892-?) enlisted in The Royal Irish Constabulary, 1920. b.England 1892 : Record page 76B #852093 ancestry.com : [WW1 service medal, Private, 19th Hussars, nr16908] : [?a William H J Soper m.1917 Lon]
Frederick Soper Harbertonford, Totnes,Dev; Pte nr.436808 273rd Area Emp Co, Labour Corps; 1920 Absent Voters List, Totnes Division scan : [m.Rhoda Barter Codner 1907 Dev]
Frederick William Soper nr.317748 Sergt Tank Corps; Absent Voters List 1920 ; Dorset, Southern Division; Beechcroft, Park Rd, Swanage Wyke Regis Dorset; 37 Autumn scan
George James Soper (1898-) nr.1661993; attested Royal Artillery 1920 [he was discharged from RGA 28 Jun 1920] age 42y 10m at Southampton; Royal Garison Artilery 3 Apr 1908-28 Jul 1920; warehouseman b.St Paul, Southampton; m.Silence Russell 5 Apr 1896 S'tn; Albert Soper b.28 Jan 1902; Alice Edith Soper b.28 Jul 1908 both St Dennis; Discharged 1 Oct 1927 para.193(2) TA Regs; reg nr.352003; serial nr.151; rank/character BQ NS scan : [see military biog]
Liet-Col Frank W Sopper, 120 Ashley Gardens, SW1 in London Phone Book (Victoria 8253) 1921 & 1922 [see 1899] : [a Frank William Sopper, 31 at Andover, Hants]
Frederick Soper-Dyer nr.7871022 B Coy, 1 Depot, Tank Reg; Absent Voters List 1921 Basingstoke Division, Hants; Waltham Rd, Basingstoke, Hampshire 969 Autumn; scan : [see Hants]
Albert Soper (1902-) nr.1664775 shipwright, attested 12 Apr 1921, age 19y 3m at Southampton; b.St Denys, Hants; Discharged 1 Apr 1925 Dover 193(1)TA Regs; as L/Sgt, Serial Nr.R5986 scan : [father, George QM Sgt Royal Artilery 1908-20 biog]
Tom Soper (1894-) nr.1051043; attested for 4 years, Royal Artillery 1921 at Winchester; age 27y 4m, shoeing smith b.1894 ; former service nr.90372; m.Bettie Mary Bevan w[idow?] 19 Apr 1922 Wandsworth; dau Marjorie Soper b.23 Mar 1918 Wandsworth; Dischargeded scan as gunner 19 Jul 1925 dis.TE sec d, AR, B2079-13246; conduct v.good; address 11 Boutflosen Rd, Clapham Junction, SW Lon [previous address unreadable]
Sgt Soper C Coy, won final, Regimental Middleweight Boxing, 2nd Battalion Beds & Herts Reg, stationed Kamptee, India; 'Bedfordshire Times' 22 Dec 1922
Sidney George Soper nr.1422421; attested Royal Artillery 7 Feb 1922, for 9/3 years age 14y 183d; trade, boy; b.1908 Plymouth, Dev; Discharged 12 Jun 1932 para370(xviii) KR lost scan : [Sydney George b.1907 Plymouth, to John Charles m.Margaret Watts 1905 Dev]
Albert Edward Soper [b.c.Jan 1903], Essex Regiment; Attested 5 Sep 1922 at Kingston, 19y 9m; 5ft 5�; 115lbs; Chest 35in expansion 3in; fresh complexion; grey eyes; brown hair; Distinctive marks; stain & scar on neck; Occupation labourer; b.Battersea, Sy; remarks 1 Weller Cottages, Weybridge; Surrey; from p16 Voluntary & Direct Enlistments, 19 Apr 1922 to 21 Feb 1925; Surrey Recruitment Registers 1908-33, findmypast.com : [Albert Edward Soper b.Jan>Mar 1903, Wandsworth RD, Lon : '11cen age 8 Wandsworth with Albert 36 & Louise 35 all b.Battersea; parents m.1900]
F G Soper Lt. (late RGA, SR), [Royal Garrison Artillery] to be Lt. with precedence from 10 Aug 1922, for service with Bangor University College Contingent., Sen. Div, OTC 3 Jun 1924 (London Gazette 2 Sep)
F Soper Rifle Brigade Company Sergeant Major [assume new appointment?] Google Books snippet from The Colonial Office list for GB, pub.1923; snippet from Google Books
William Edward Soper (1903-) nr.1669508; attested, T[erritorials] Royal Artillery 16 Feb 1923; age 20y 6m, labourer b.1903 Portland, Dor; Discharged 13 Sep 1945 to ZTRes [territorial reserves?]; Discharged age limit scan [ 1914]
William John Soper nr.760160; attested Royal Artillery 12 Nov 1923 at Liverpool; age 29y 3m, saddler b.1895 Toxteth, Lancs; m.'Amy Picio' (British) 27 Oct 1920; John C b.23 Aug 1921; William R b.12 Aug 1923 & Rebecca M b.10 Nov 1924, all Liverpool; address, 30 Forath Ave?, L'pl; Transferred 11 Nov 1928 para.193(i) TA Regs scan : [m.Amy Peers 27 Oct 1920 Liverpool, Lancs]
Col C W Soper Whitburn selling Addington Park between Wrotham & Malling, a 15 bed mansion in mature pleasure grounds, electric light & telephone, with 2,404 acres, lodges, farm, business premises & 15 cottages. Auction at Maidstone : from Guardian paper, 3 Jun 1923 [Kent Yeomen commander 1914]
Alfred Charles Sopers 29 & Winifred Ethel Soper 30; Eileen Winifred Soper 5 & Alfred Charles Soper 3 military; RC of Sigs, Catterick (6 others in unit on list) sailed 3rd class on "Oroya" (Pacific S N co Line) Bermuda arriving Liverpool, Eng 11 Oct 1925 (ship from Antofagasta, Chile & W.Coast of S.America) : [m.Winifred E South 1918, Lon]
Leonard Charles Soper (1907-) nr.399646, a gardener 18y 0m b.Ellisfield, Basingstoke, Hant; attested for 6y regular army (& 6y reserves) at Winchester 2 Jun 1925; Discharged Canterbury to army reserves 1 Jun 1937, cause '510' (vii); remarks King's Dn Gds scan : [Leonard m.Winifred E A Postle 1928]
Lance Corporal Soper from Blaengarw, Wales, of Manchester Regiment, British Army of the Rhine found suffocated on the floor of his bedroom at Officers' mess, Konigstein. Believed a lighted cigarette set light to his bedding : from Guardian Newspaper, 25 Jan 1926
C H Soper, Comd. Gunner RN placed on retired list at own request with rank of Lieut 2nd Aug 1926, Admiralty 10 Sep (London Gazette 14 Sep)
George Edward Soper (1895-) nr.771891; motor driver; attested Royal Artillery 22 Apr 1926 T[erritorials] for 4y at Brighton, Sx, age 31; b.Brighton; former service KRRC nr.R11868; m.Louisa Lock 21 Jul 1919 Camberwell, Ivy Rose Soper b.10 May 1920 Camberwell; Transferred 21 Apr 1930, para 199(i) TAR scan : [George Soper m.Louisa Lock 1919]
Harold Evan Soper (c1904-?) 23 lance corporal, Royal Army Medical Corp; english citizen, Last permanent address Jamaica; address c/o Depot Fleet sailed 3rd class on "RMS Orbita" (Pacific Steam Navigation co) from Antofagasta, Chile arriving Liverpool, Eng 22 Oct 1927; scan; UK Incoming Register; [sailed with group from medical corp & Royal Engineers] : [b.1901, Exeter, Dev; m.1931]
William John Soper (1909-) nr.1073136; attested regular army 6 years & 6y reserves, at Exeter; Royal Artillery 29 Aug 1926, age 18, general labourer b.1909 St Michaels, Paignton, Dev; to AR 29 Dec 1933; Transferred to CD & AA 28 May 1940 scan : [William J b.1909 to John Thomas Soper m.Florence Brimicombe 1909, Totnes, Dev]
W J S Soper gunner to be Cd Gunner, RN 24 Jun 1927 (http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33289/pages/4139">London Gazette
Leonard Alfred Soper Royal Sussex Regiment; Attested Battersea, Lon, 28 Jan 1927; a van guard, [work?] 4 Aegis St, Battersea; 18y 0m; 5ft 7�in; 129lbs; 37-40in chest, fresh complexion, blue eyes, light brown hair, Destinctive features scars & mole+ [+ = more information recorded] scan
Col C W Soper Whitburn, of Amport St Mary, Andover, won 2nd prize in Hampshire Down Shearling Rams in Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, pub.1929 Google Books snippet [see Kent Yeomen commander 1914]
Michael Paul Soper (112975) Royal Army Service Corps. (London Gazette 2 Jan) Cadets (ex-Gentlemen Cadets, Royal Military College) from Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst, to be 2nd Lt 31 Dec. 1930 (http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34766/supplements/66">London Gazette Harry James Soper nr.804413; attested Royal Artillery 1930 ; Transferred 21 Jul 1934 papa.199(1)TAR[erserve]; Re-enlisted RASC (SR) 7 Oct 1938 scan
J A Soper (c1905-?) 26 soldier, sailed 3rd class on "Orsova" (Orient Steam Navigation Line) from Port Said, Egypt arriving Tilbury, London, Eng 30 Jul 1931; Last permanant address Egypt; Planned future residence British Empire; address 6 York Mansions, Walworth, SE17 (ship from Brisbane, Australia) scan; UK Incoming Register
A E Soper, pte, obituary, The Queen's Royal Regiment, JQRR Nov 1931 p.79 John Henry Soper (c1909-?) 24, job R A; english citizen, Last permanent address India; address 2 G Gds? Padduet?, Plymouth, [Dev], sailed 3rd class on "Appam" from Port Said, Egypt arriving Liverpool, Eng 29 May 1933; (ship from S.Africa) R A also job of passenger above, Stuart Smith 25 from Port Said, employment Egypt, address R A Depot : [so assume Royal Artillery?] scan; UK Incoming Register : [b.not vis bmd or '11cen]
Harold Patrick Geoffrey Soper nr.822853; attested Royal Artillery 1932; Pension 26 Feb 1946; Transferred to Z Reserve 26 Feb 1946 scan : [m.Eliza R Davies Jan>Mar 1940, Forest of Dean, Glos]
John Bertram Sopper Officer Cadet Bombr., Cambridge Univ. Contgt., Officer Training Corps, Sen. Div., to be 2nd Lt. with seniority 4 Nov. 1933, for serv. with the Survey Unit of that Contgt. 4 May 1934 (London Gazette 18 May) [John B Sopper b.1913; m.Halina Protasow 1947]
William Henry Soper nr.838700; attested Royal Artillery 1934; Transferred 11 Jul 1937 AR [reserves], CD/AA; 12 Jul 1946 2 Res scan
Walter John Soper nr.850667; attested Royal Artillery 1935; Transferred 20 Sep 1947 Z [reserves] scan
Arthur John Charles Soper nr.858412; attested Royal Artillery 1936; Transferred para 390 (xvii) KR 4 Jun 1943 scan : [Arthur d.1944 see]
Eric Ronald Soper nr.861678; attested Royal Artillery 1936; Dorset Hy?; Transferred to ACC exA/A 7 Oct 1942 scan : [Eric 1920 to Archie & Annie Ethel M Bell m.1909 Poole. Dor]
Claude James Soper nr.865855;104F; attested Royal Artillery 1937; Transferred para 204 (3) TA Regs 8 May 1939 scan : [Claud James Soper b.Jul>Sep 1908, Croydon, Sy; father's military biog]
Edward Thomas Henry Soper nr.875725; attested Royal Artillery 1937 Dorset Lty?; Transferred para 204 (15) T A Regs 15 Apr 1939 (R.Navy) scan : [parents Sydney C m.Gladys M Hardy 1921 Weymouth, Dor; Edward Thomas H Soper (1922-2000), age 78]
Arthur Gordon Soper nr.1468271; attested Royal Artillery 1938; 128/36; Transferred to Field 5845A; 10 Aug 1944; 8 Dec 1945 W (T) scan
Frederick Thomas Soper nr.885877; attested Royal Artillery 1938, 5472; Died 19 Sep 1940 (CD) scan : [see war deaths]
Frederick William Soper 'Fred' b.Apr>Jun 1885 Chute [Pewsey RD] m.Emily Ethel Hoare Jul>Sep 1909, Hungerford, Berks (bmd) nr.1556414; attested Royal Artillery 1938; 73/23LtAA; Discharged 11 Sep 1943 para.390 (xvii) S4 KR643? scan : [parents Frederick William m.Emily Ethel Hoare 1909, Hungerford, Berks]
Harold Edward Soper nr.1565903; attested Royal Artillery 1938; 150/52; Transferred HAA/S 16 May 1946, Z Territorial Reserves scan
William John Hare Soper nr.1432053; attested Royal Artillery 1938; Transferred HAA/S; ZT 21 Dec 1945 [territorial reserves]; Discharged age limit scan : [b.1911 at Lewisham William John m.Caroline Hare 1893 Camberwell, Lon]
List of WW2 Soper deaths, 29 British Soper Records
Wills available; WW2 probate www.goc.uk (�6ea)
George Soper (c1905-?) 34 soldier, sailed 2nd class on "Frawalpindi" (P & O Line) from Hong Kong to London, Eng (via Singapore; Ship continued to Plymouth [?] arriving 10 Aug 1939; Last permanent address Hong Kong; Planned future residence England ; address 2nd Middx Rgt, Portsmouth (Yokohama, Japan), scan; UK Incoming Register : ['11cen 4 Georges 5-7] : [bmd 3 Georges 1904-6 George Albert Soper b.Apr>Jun 1905 Camberwell, Lon; George Brendon Soper b.Oct>Dec 1905 Newton Abbott, Dev; George Soper b.Oct>Dec 1905 Bethnal Green, Lon]
WW2 Prisoners of War from military-genealogy.com & findmypast
Sgt. Soper photographed with several others at NCS's Staff, No1 School of Instruction for Infantry Officers, Brocton Camp source
Lieutenant Colonel Frank William Sopper, of Easter Aberchalder, Gorthleck, Stratherrick. A commission signed by the Lord Lieutenat of Inverness : from The London Gazette 12 Sept 1939 : see 1901
Catriona Sopper - b.19 Aug 1903 : had a Personnel file for Special Operations Executive: WW2 (so 1939-1946) : HS 9/1392 : National Archives : [Caitriona Isabel Sopper (1903-1992); parents m.1901]
Harold Soper nr.989532; attested Royal Artillery 1939; to CD & AA 13 Aug 1940; Class R reserves 1954; Discharged 1958, age limit; O/No.167.3 PH; scan
John Frederick Soper nr.892517; attested Royal Artillery 1939; 64 Field, Transferred to ACC 22 Jan 1943 scan
John Frederick Soper nr.990947; attested Royal Artillery 1939; O/No/6485ZV; Transferred to CDAA 15 Aug 1940; To Class P Res 1954' Discharged 1956 age limit scan
Phillip James Soper nr.985139; attested Royal Artillery 1939; Transferred to Glam Huy 14 Jun 1940; RA (FLA) 8 Feb 1943; to Welsh Reg 8 Mar 1945 scan
Robert Glanville Soper nr.987959; attested Royal Artillery 1939, 98 F[ield Artillery]; O/No.430.zZE; Transferred 26 Oct 1944 crossed-out; 23 Nov 1944, para.390(xvi) KR/40 scan : [connection?? a John Glanville Soper (1853-1917) d.London, d.Canada]
Rita Soper gave her reminiscences in 2005. She joined the army, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, to escape her strict granny. Stationed Derby. Drove Bedford trucks & motorcycles to Dover. 3 trips to Germany. from BBC archives : ['11cen only Rita Soper, 20 at Portsmouth, Hants]
Ronald Oswald Soper nr.1675822; attested Royal Artillery 1940; Transferred 16 Sep 1941 para.390 KR(xvi); NR scan : [?a Roland O Soper & Eileen A Jackson m.1932]
Richard John Soper, M.Eng., B.Eng, AM.Inst.CE (119941). 28 Feb 1940 to be 2nd Lt (London Gazette 23 Apr) : [presumably too old.. '11cen a Richard John 24 a compositor at Hackney]
John Francis Soper (149862 Cadet from 163rd Officer Cadet Training Unit, to be 2nd Lt Royal Berks Regiment (London Gazette 4 Oct 1940)
Colonel Soper inspected The Portree Station of the Home Guard (14th Platoon, 4th Company, 3 Batt, Invernesshire) 3 Jun 1940 source
E C E Soper, Saper, Royal Engineers reported prisoner of war, (with many other sapers) : From The Times 5 Dec 1940 [assume Edwin C E Soper b.Oct>Dec 1920, m.Heather E Alger Apr>Jun 1946, both Reading]
F W Soper, Sgt, Royal Engineers reported killed (several other Royal Engineers on this list) : From The Times 13 Dec 1940
Herbert Henry Soper nr.1607574; attested Royal Artillery 1940; Transferred 25 Mar 1946HAA/S, Z/T [territorial reserves]; Discharged 1955 age limit scan
Philip Soper joined the army May 1940. At D-Day, a gunner 24, in 15th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, landed King Sector, Gold Beach 7 June. His unit supported British and Canadian troops in the area. No.2 of a ten-man team firing a 5.5 inch gun : photo : www.ddaymuseum
Albert Archie Soper nr.1117844; attested Royal Artillery 1940 195.10 RMF; Transferred CCCK 461/1; para 390 (xvi) 8; 27 Feb 1942 scan : [Albert A b.1911, Romford to Alfred William m.Aggie Agnes Swan 1911]
Albert Edward Soper nr.1677493 attested Royal Artillery 1940; discharged, age limit, 13 Jan 1946?; S/L scan
Alfred George Soper nr.1714716; attested Royal Artillery 1940; Transferred to Buffs 6773.E 1 Oct 1944 scan
Arthur Edward Soper nr.1601718; 33/1 attested Royal Artillery 1940; Transferred 11 Nov 1940 to field; 10 May 1946 'Z'(T) Arthur George Soper nr.1642470; attested Royal Artillery 1940; reposted to LAA 27 Feb 1943 [crossed out] Transferred Field Reg 3 Dec 1944 *247A; 19 Mar 1946 Z/T; Disch O/A 1954 scan
Arthur Sidney Soper nr.1718060; attested Royal Artillery 1940; Transferred S/L 2 Jun 1945 to Dorsets scan : [a photo of a Arthur Sidney Soper aka Charlie Soper, so presumably paywalled records]
Aubrey Soper (1882-) a porter, nr.1400590; attested Royal Artillery 8 Jan 1901 London, age 19y 7m b.Highfield, Crawley, Sx; Former service nr.6914; wife Florence Emma Harford m.West Crawley 1 Jan 1912 (d.28 Sep 1913); remEdith Annie Higgins 22 Oct 1915 Plymouth, [Dev]; children Charles Aubury Soper b.24 Sep 1913 Chatham; William Henry Soper b.28 Dec 1915 & Alexander Norman Soper also b.28 Dec 1915; B War, Victory & 1914 star Medals; Long Service & Good Conduct Medal ao.338 2/19; Discharged 30 Jun 1925 Dover, physically unfit for service; Exemplary conduct; pension 36d pd for life from 1 Jul 1925; 13s 9d weekly from 31 Jul 25-9 Jun 26; address DE Porstmouth; scan : [Aubrey m.Florence E Harford 1912 Horsham, Sx]
Bertram George Soper nr.1650887; attested Royal Artillery 1940, 44 Lt AA 20 Oct 1941; Transferred to ACC 17427B 12 Nov 1942 scan : [b.1908 Portland, Dor, see 01cen]
Charles Henry Ernest Soper nr.1758593; attested Royal Artillery 1940; 12 Jan 1943, HAA?S; Discharged as age limit 28 Jul 1947; D390(xvi) scan : [Charles Henry E b. 1907, Fulham to Ernest Phillip m.Blanche Mary Robertson 1904 Lon]
Ernest James Charles Soper nr.1088777; attested Royal Artillery 1940; Oc.nr.441.4ZH; AXXR 121/2; died 21 dec 1943 scan : [b.1914 Wandsworth to Ernest J & Ellen E Barber m.1913 Fulham; bur.Sicily]
Frank Soper nr.1637813; attested Royal Artillery 1940 125/214; Haa/S; Transferred 29 Sep 1945, para.390 (xvi) IT.R scan
Frederick George Soper nr.1637101; attested Royal Artillery 1940, 205th HAA TNG Rgt 14 Nov 1940; Transferred 24 Jun 1941 para 390(xvii) KR'40 scan
Frederick William John Soper nr.1682373; attested Royal Artillery 1940; Transferred 23 Mar 1944 to ACC; S/L scan
Jellicoe Beatty Soper nr.1616717; attested Royal Artillery 1940; Transferred 12 Jul HAA/S Z(T); reposted to LAA 30 Nov 1945 scan
Vivian Isaac Soper nr.1766721; attested Royal Artillery 1940; 146/147 ; S/L; Transferred 23 Jun 1946 ZT [Territorial Reserves]; Discharged 1957 age limit scan : [??a Vivian I D Soper b.1912, Andover (m.Dorothy E Morris 1945, Pershore, Worcs)]
Walter Leonard Soper nr.1653437; attested Royal Artillery 1940; S/L; Transferred to Devon Reg 14 Apr 1944 scan
William James Richard Soper nr.1582603; attested Royal Artillery 1940; Transferred 13 May 1946 Had/3; Z/T [z reserves territorials] scan : [?a William J R Soper b.1914 to William H m.Millie Cross 1913, Wandsworth, Lon]
Robert Soper-Dyer WO Cl.1 (121483), Northern Reg. To be 2nd Lts (London Gazette 23 Feb 1940) : [a Gordon R Soper Dyer b.Jul>Sep 1933 Aldershot, mother nee Campbell]
J B Soper, Major, commanded four 3.7 inch Mountain Howitzers of the 21st Mountain Battery, Indian Artillery, Indian III Corps based at Kuala Lumpur defending Malaysia : as of 7 Dec 1941 [Japan invaded Malaya 8 Dec 1942] : wiki : [? a J B Sopper was Lt in Royal Regiment of Artillery 1937 & Capt 1942]
James Soper nr.1785125; attested Royal Artillery 1941; HAA/S6, Transferred 14 May 1946 Z/T (fed) [territorial reserve]; Discharged 1956 age limit scan
John Edmund Russell Soper nr.1833504; attested Royal Artillery 1941; Transferred 15 Jul 1946 Z/T; Discharged O/A 1954 [old age?] scan : [John Edmund R Soper b.1910 Woolwich, Lon to John Henry E Soper m.Alice Elizabeth Usmar 1901, Woolwich]
Sgt Harry Soper in Egypt, Italy & else where. He was a sergeant in the armoured division. REME [Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers] from grandaughter Pat random_cutie#@yahoo.com [remove #] looking for anyone who served with him source : [assume above WW2? ?a L/Cpl Harry Soper on Dev in WW1, Egypt above]
W Soper 36 Brandon Buildings, Clifton, Bristol listed p.128 Through Palestine with the 20th Machine Gun Squadron pub.2007 Google Books snippet
Sapper Soper RE, on fire & rescue party at Valleta, Malta. (?perhaps No. 2 Works Company, Royal Engineers, Malta Territorial Force) & 2 others entered a building in a dangerous state, at 60ft, during an air raid, after a bomb at considerable personal risk, rescuing man, wife & 3 children after 4 stories collapsed. Rescue achieved by bridging 60ft deep �well� with ladders & doors taken from debris; corp Simpson awarded BEM, Gunner Ridgeway George Medal (for this & other actions) & Sappers Redhead & Soper mentioned in despatches. 15 Mar 1942 source
W H Soper, Gunner, Royal Artillery, reported prisoner of war in The Times 8 Nov 1941
Alfred Soper nr.11269339, attested Royal Artillery 1941; Transferred 10 Sep 1944 HAA/S to Warus? scan
Charles Henry Soper nr.11264350; attested Royal Artillery 1941; Transferred to Pioneer Corps 13 Aug 1942 (854c) scan
J K Soper, Rifleman of the Rifle Brigade, reported prisoner of war in The Times 11 Apr 1942
J W Soper, Driver, Royal Army Service Corps, reported prisoner of war in The Times 23 Nov 1942 [?a William (dvr) returned Australia 1945]
Raymond Soper nr.1157233; attested Royal Artillery 1942; Extracted to NSRW; Discharged (19911) Jul 1956 Group (p); See B7353; TMFD 136-4 scan
Corporal L R Soper & Pvt.L R Soper & Pvt.P Soper; "C" Company Based in St Thomas, patrolled between Cowley Bridge & the Double Locks.
M P Soper (112975). 2nd Lt Royal Army Service Corp to be Lt : 1 Jul 1941 (London Gazette 27 Jun)
Norman Percy Soper nr.1147495; attested Royal Artillery 1942 ; Cancelled M of L? 29 Apr 1942 scan : [?a Norman Percy Soper b.1903, Lewisham, Lon; see Australia biog]
Ralph Robert Soper (286519). Special List, granted commission rank of 2nd Lt for service with the Army Cadet Force, Surrey Comm. 19 Mar 1943 (London Gazette 13 Aug) : [Ralph Robert b.Jan>Mar 1906 Lewisham]
R J W Soper gunner Royal Artillery POWnr3456 & W H Soper Gnr RA POWnr5878 MOC 11066/GW : [Man of Confidence, elected to comunicate for a POW work camp nr 11066/GW] : [prisoners in Stalag 18A, POW camp, Wolfsberg, Austria, opened for prisoners from Greece/Crete 1941 : As Russian front approached fit prisoners marched 212 miles in 11 days through snow to Markt Pongau prison camp, where guards offered prisoners their rifles 10 May 1945]
Thomas Hugh Sopper, (c1905-1943) Lieutenant ; Service No: 151604 : Died 8 May 1943, age 38, 1st Bn King's Shropshire Light Infantry Memorial Reference I. B. 12. Massicault War Cemetery : Son of Harry & Catherine Isabella Sopper, of Horley, Surrey. [By mid April the Axis forces were forced back into a small area of NE Tunisia. These were defeated after an attack in April & May. The cemetery contains about 1,600 Commonwealth burials] : ['11cen age 6 at Reigate, Surrey]
Arthur John (277728) Cadet to be 2nd Lt Royal Regiment of Artillery 5 Jun 1943. (Lon Gazette 6 Jul)
Aubrey Louis Soper railway record; engine cleaner 1937, driver at Oxford; 1945; military service 2 Sep 39 to 26 Sep 40; recalled 24 Jun 42 to 24 Oct 42; recalled 5 Jul 43 to 1 Aug 46; scan : [parents Aubrey m.Edith A Higgins 1915, Plymouth]
E R Soper Served [for New Zealand?] with the unit in operations in New Caledonia, Vella Lavella & Green Island : The 35th Battalion, Battalion Nominal Roll : www.nzetc.org
Basil Lorraine Hoare-Soper (299817) cadets to be 2nd Lt 12 Sep 1943 : (London Gazette 30 Nov) : [Basil L H Soper b.1914 Andover, mother nee Hoare; parents m.source]
F J Soper, Sapper, Royal Engineers, reported prisoner of war in The Times 27 Mar 1944 : F J Soper, Spr imprisoned in 3 camps 1944-5 : Heito (S Taiwan), Kinkaseki Camp on NE coast of Taiwan, [apparently then moved inland perhaps in May/June 1945 to] Kukutsu camp [Atom bombs ended war in Aug] source
William Edgar Soper, Warrant Officer Class 2, Royal Army Service Corps, Service No T/76745. Mention in Despatches, North-West Europe 1944-45: Announced in London Gazette, 4 Apr 1946 ref WO 373/91 Recommendations for Honours & Awards (Army) nationalarchives.gov.uk [only web mention is, parents William Henry & Sarah Jane Blin] also [William Edgar Hugh Soper b.5 Sep 1917 - d.1 Oct 1997]
Leslie Soper-Dyer (322953) War Subs. SMI, Army Physical Training Corps. To be Lt (Qr Mr) 6 May 1944 (London Gazette 11 Jul) : [a Lt Robert Soper-Dyer 1940]
John Hugh Soper, Guardsman nr2655882 Coldstream Guards. General Service Medal 1918-62 clasp Palestine, 1939-45 Star, Africa Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, War Medals. (No 1 Coy, 2nd Bat. KIA, 17 Feb 1944 in Italy on Garigliano River) : from missing service medal site : northeastmedals.co.uk
E J Soper (59778) Major, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, having exceeded the age limit of liability to recall, relinquishes his commission, 15 Oct 1944, retaining the rank of Major (London Gazette 11 Oct 1946)
Mowbray Morris Souper, Major 1st Bn, Worcestershire Reg died aged 24, 25 Sept 1944 Service No: 134308 : Son of the Rev Adrian Wilfrid James Souper, MA & Agnes E Souper ; husband of Dorothy Souper, of East Grinstead, Sussex. Arnhiem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 10. B7 : Killed in action at The Battle of Arnham Commonwealth War Graves Commission : [a Moubray Souper, Surgeon in the Royal Marine Brigade 1944]
James Alfred Soper (335645). 14614809 Cadet to be 2nd Lt, 3 Dec 1944 (London Gazette 30 Jan)">London Gazette Joan Marguerite Frances Sopper, Miss, promoted to rank of Acting Third Officer, WRNS (seniority 17 Oct 1943) (http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36326/pages/230 11 Jan 1944) : Acting Third Officers WRNS are confirmed in rank of Third Officer (http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36507/pages/2137 9 May 1944) : Given Order of the British Empire 28 Nov 1944 (http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36815/supplements/5454 24 Nov) : Acting Second Officers W.R.N.S. are confirmed in rank of Second Officer 18 Sep 1945 (seniority 25 Jan 1945) (http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/37315/pages/5135 19 Oct)
Robert H Soper in King�s Dragoon Guards, in the D-Day reserve, WW2, missed continental action & spent his time in uniform in Long Range Desert Rescue in Libya & Palestine, 1945-8 : [Robert Howard Soper (1926-2001) m.Katherine Gillies (1929-2004) b.1926]
Robert Reinagle Souper. rank T/Capt (WS/Lieut) Royal Regiment of Artillery. Nr: 130275. Awarded Military Cross, 1 Mar 1945 NW Europe : ref WO 373/51/143 : National Archives
Gordon Lawrence Soper, A106855 Private, Canadian Infantry Corps. Bronze Cross [conferred by the Queen of Netherlands] (London Gazette 19 Feb) Order of Orange Nassau
Neville Allan Soper (343509) 192541 Cadet to be 2nd Lt, Royal Armoured Corps, 25 Mar 1945 (London Gazette 1 May) : [Neville A Soper b.Apr>Jun 1925 Southampton mother nee Allan]
Wilfred Thomas Soper a London advertising exec from 1932 (to 1996); in Royal Armoured Corps WW2; see
see London notes
William Soper b.7 Jul 1902, Durham Home Guard, 15th Battalion; WW2 record; WO 409/27/54/291; National Archives
End of WW2
W E Soper, Warrent Officer, 2nd Class 1946; record for sale forces-war-records.co.uk [?a 2nd Ltn WES WW1>]
S.P.O. M A J Soper, next of kin Mrs Soper (m) [mother?], 3 Southcombe Rd, Axmouth Seaton, Devon; sailed on "Maunqanui" from Wellington, New Zealand; arriving Southampton, Eng 10 Jan 1946; nrD/KX85339; no disability; Cat 'MW'; Ward 'E'; [assume list from reptriated war hospital] scan; UK Incoming Register
E A Soper, Private, RAMC. [Royal Army Medical Corps] deceased; �24 5s 2d. available for distribution amongst the next-of-kin : Effects from 1947 (London Gazette 29 Dec 1950) : [not in WW2 death list]
A J Soper Captain, Corps of Royal Engineers 1948 record for sale forces-war-records.co.uk
J M Soper, 2nd Lieutenant Royal Regiment of Artillery 1950; record for sale forces-war-records.co.uk
Alexander Sopper, Czechoslovakia, coal miner, "Melrose" New Rd, Coppull, Lancashire. Certificate of
Naturalisation granted 4 Nov 1953 (http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/40038/pages/6671 8 Dec)
Peter Charles Roland Soper, Colour Serjeant nr.14476433, 4th (Uganda) Battalion The King's African Rifles - Middlesex Regiment; Recommended for Award: British Empire Medal 1957 : & awarded to Warrant Officer Class II (local) of The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own), attached King's African Rifles wiki : [Peter C R Soper b.Jan>Mar 1928 Isle of Wight (mother ne Day) see]
Basil Percy Soper (463508) to be 2nd Lt 6 May 1959 : London Gazette 8 Dec : source
Sapper W Soper, Royal Engineers represented the army in swimming with distinction, sometime in the era of the 1960s from army Swimming Union
: WO Cl.1 George Albert Mons Soper (454745) to be Lt (Qr Mr) 9 Nov 1957 with antedate for seniority to 1 Jun 1957; Cameronians, Regular Army (5339603) London Gazette 6 Dec 1957; source
T H Soper, sergeant major reg nr.A11000: received the new regimental colour from the hands of the Queen's representative was Lieut Thomas O Soper, son of Perth's regimental sergeant-major of the period 1939-43 : .. Battalion Sert Maj T H Soper ran a smartening-up school for...; Just on the edge of embarkation the Regiment said a regretful farewell to it's Reg Sgtr Maj.... : The Fighting Perths, a Canadian county regiment pub.1934 Google Books snippet
Lieut Col Roberto Souper learned 29 Jun 1973 he would be relieved of command for his part in the conspiracy & headed a column of 16 vehicles & tanks & 80 soldiers to encircle the presidential palace & Defence Ministry, Santiago, Chile. They fired 50 rounds. President Allende broadcasted for help. The attempted 'exteme right wing' coup was not supported & within 2 hours the mutiny was put down. Souper seen retreating 'looking disorientated & lost'. He surrendered next day : [brother of a regional director of the fascist 'Fatherland & Liberty' party] : [Colonel Robert Souper Howard (1818-1881) of the Chilean Army, killed in Peru 1818]
Major William John Soper Royal Engineers presented with a Military Submariner Rolex 1978 in 1996 presented to son Mark Soper for completing the arduous Royal Marine training course; auctioned �39,000 Jun 2011 bonhams.com
Michael George Soper (c1943-2011). Served, 3 Royal Tank Regiment for 22 years, in UK, BAOR, N.Ireland, Australia, d.20 Apr 2011 aged 68 source : ?Mick Soper, of Bristol, Bath & dist branch of the RTR
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Maj Soper Royal Fusiliers 3 Oct 1688 : Historical records of the 7th or Royal Regiment of Fusiliers: (City of London Reg), 1685-1903, Royal Fusiliers 12 Jun 1685 : snippets from Historical records of the 7th or Royal Regiment of Fusiliers: (City of London Reg), 1685-1903, [tangental snippets; presumably naming the officer after Soper in seniority] Google Books snippet"
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Major T Soper, 3 letters to Lord Dartmouth, Master of the Horse & Governor of the Tower. Re attempts to dispose of a commission in Dartmouth's Reg without his knowledge, appointment of a lieutenant & regimental vacancies: 14-20 Oct 1688. DW1778/I/i/1401,1452 & 1488. [Seems Soper on wrong side, as in Oct 1688, Lord Dartmouth tried to intercept the Prince of Orange's Dutch invasion fleet . He failed, the Prince became King William without a fight & Dartmouth imprisoned & d.1891 in The Tower] www.a2a
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Major Soper who was proclaimed for high treason had absconded & Capt Wilson had succeeded to the majority. A staunch supporter of James II and a personal friend of Lord Dartmouth (vide his letters in the Dartmouth Correspondence). Major Soper was dismissed from the Army in Nov 1688, and, in May�. : [Capt Thos Soper has seniority over Edward Vincent c.1687] Historical records of the 7th or Royal Regiment of Fusiliers: (City of London Reg) Google Books snippet
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Major Thomas Soaper, 14 July 1690 on a list conspiritors with France (presumably catholic with the exiled King James) to be 'taken & apprehended' (20 on list, inc Earls, & knights & officers & William Penn who was arrested shortly after). With King William fighting in Ireland & a victorious French & Dutch fleet off the coast, The Queen called out the militia & issued the list in a proclamation : from 'Memoirs of William Penn' pub 1827 : GoogleBooks.com
the proclamation above : To stike terror into conspirators with France, published a proclamation for apprehending.. [list of 20] .. who had conspired with dissaffected persons, to disturb & destroy the government, abetting their majesties enemies in the present invasion : from 'Mr. Rapin's History of England' , pub 1761 : GoogleBooks.com [French troops landed at Torbay 22 July]
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Major Soaper was one of 60 listed as discharged having turned up 'pursuant to their recognisances'* on the last day of the term of kings bench, 28 Nov 1690 : [*presume this means they'd previously paid a sum to court as bail but seems some, like Penn, turned up from prison] : GoogleBooks.com
: William Pvte 10th Dragoons 24 Dec 1799; WO25 ref. 892; Napoleonic War Records 1775-1817 scan : [10th Dragoons (Prince of Wales's Own) became Hussars 1806 10th Reg of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars; Peninsular War from 1808 & Waterloo 1815)] : [assume b.1790 to Richard & Sarah Hutchins m.1779]
: William Soper age 33; DDI 18/4/41 D269856; 10th Regiment of Dragoons; Admission 16 Sep 1814 HRH the Prince Regent; b.'Shirford', Hants [Sherfield], labourer, 5ft 7in, brown eyes, grey? hair, fresh complexion; Private for 14y 4m; 14y 4m 5d pay per day crossed out [possibly served in West Indies??] & 16y 8m 9d pay per day; OP 29 Jun 1821; ['out-pensioner'; ie not at Chelsea??] Rheumatism contracted in Spain; Payed insurance? [+3 words too light to guess] from record; 'Royal Hospital, Chelsea, Regimental Registers of Pensioners Who Served in Canada', scan
: William Discharged aged 29; 7 Dec 1808; tinplate worker; b.St Thomas, Exeter; Royal Hospital registered of pensioners who served in Canada scan
: William Serjeant 3rd Foot Guards, 27 Jun 1798; WO25 ref. 876; Napoleonic War Records 1775 - 1817 scan
: Michael Soper Parish return - Active service list; 1804 St Budeaux, Devon; ?an artificer; a Pioneer with felling axe ext; Plymouth Militia Records ref.2636/2 scan: ['51cen Michael 71]
: Matthew Soper Sidbury militiaman for Joseph Bedloe; �2 5s & his wife and child, 4 Oct 1808 : 11 Apr 1809 wife & child of Matthew Soper Sidbury substitute for Joseph Bedloe otp �3 5s at 2s 6d per week. 11 Jul 1809 the same �3 5s. 7 Apr 1812 �4 17s 6d at 3s 9d per week. 14 Jul 1812 the same �4 17s 6d. 12 Jan 1813 the same �4 17s 6d. 5 Oct 1813 �6 10s recd 7 May 1814. 19 Apr 1814 �8 12s 6d opcdorset
Captain Sooper Winchester Assizes for killing an opponent in a duel, c1815, when the Government was clamping down on dueling. Sooper had a wife & children & expected acquittal or short imprisonment, but the jury returned 'Guilty of Murder'. Sooper feinted, he apologised, saying he had no fear death having been in battle & faced the West Indies climate. He argued, had he not vindicated his honour, he would loose his commission. 'Am I to get led to execution like the vilest felon'. Justice Dampier sympathised & he was ultimately pardoned : Autobiography of William Jerdan, pub.1853 [This written as a 2nd hand anecdote, so perhaps unreliable, or phonetic surname spelling? - ie, no sign of the Judge : However a military Souper family was in W.Indies]
: 1805 Robert Soper Pvte, 15th Dragoons, enlisted 25 Mar 1805; WO25 ref.897 scan
: 1805 Robert Soper of 15th Light Dragoons m.Susanna Lawrence, 10 Dec 1805 at St Mary, Melcombe Regis, Dorset; Susanna signed 'x'; witnesses; R. Cole, Mary Marsh : ['51cen off chance ; a Susan Soper (c1785-) 66 pauper; soldiers widow, Higher St, Totnes, Dev; b.Brixham Dev scan]
: 1805 Robert Soper (c1781-?), b.Twickenham served in 15th Dragoons (Light) 1805-15, discharged aged 34 The National Archives, Kew. Cavalry of the Line record, ref WO 97/125/43 : [?b.Twickenam?; Speculate Robert was recalled when Napoleon escaped & returned to France]
: 1815 Robert Soper 1st (or King's) Dragoon Guards, in Men of the Battle of Waterloo 1815 : more info from military-genealogy.com
: 1817 ??a Robert Soper labourer of Christ Church, Southwark; Committed, Newington house of correction, for want of sureties, 8 Nov 1817 by Mr Sergeant Sellon, charged on oath of David Shewell, with riotous & disorderly behavior, at Christ Church parish; outcome, discharged at Surrey qtr sessions, Newington 13 Jan 1818; Robert of Windlesham parish, committed 9 Dec 1817 by Rev C Jerram for stealing watch, owner Peter Vine (or King?) of Windlesham. (Thomas Perrin of Windlesham examined); Pleaded not guilty, found guilty; Surrey qtr sessions 13 Jan 1818; 3 months prison with hard labour at Guildford house of correction [fmp]
- ??relation, a Robert Soper ran? 'White Cross in the Ayte', 1766-81 [previously called 'Ship in the Ayte' then Eel Pie Hotel, Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, 1960 gigs there inc Rolling Stones) - burnt down 1971 deadpubs.co.uk]
- ??a Robert Soper ran Eight Bells, 11 Bell Ln, Twickenham 1780; In 1781 John Soper; 1783-7 Robert Soper; 1791 Mary Soper; 1796 Mary & Robert Soper; 1798 Robert Soper; (private residence by 1910) Licensed Victuallers Records from deadpubs.co.uk : [from above, might guess father Robert d.1791 & mother Mary took over until Robert was 18??] : [but a Robert m.1755 & d.1811, Twickenham assume father?]
- ??relation Robert Soper (1741-) Serjeant age 52, 17 years service; R10 [signed for 10y?] 20 Jun 1793; Bodily infirmities; rheumatic pains & other, born.Ugborough, Devon, a husbandman; Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner; Registers of Soldiers Who Served in Canada, 1743-1882 source
: 1800 Robert Soper (c1781-?), b.Old Basing, Hampshire served in the 1st Dragoon Guards 1800-18, discharged aged 37 The National Archives, Kew. Cavalry of the Line record, WO 97/125/44 : [b.note vis Hants notes]
: 1815 ??a Robert Soper wife Mary & children Mary Ann 4 & Elizabeth (1 month) ordered by Kingsclere Parish Council overseers to be removed from Kingsclere, Hants to St George Hanover Sq, M.sx 1815 : Hampshire Records Office [at least 1 of the 3 Roberts in cavalry discharged 1815 age 34, but Twickenham, some miles away]
: 1818 Robert Soper (c1781-?), b.Old Basing, Hants served in the 1st Dragoon Guards 1800-1818, discharged aged 37 The National Archives, Kew. Cavalry of the Line record, WO 97/125/44 : [birth not vis] : [made up 40% of the Household Cavalry Brigade, the KDG charged 13 times, started with 570 sabres but no more than 30 still fit for battle at the end; 1st King's Dragoon Guards got 573 Waterloo Medals]
: 1820 Robert Soper (1781-) age 37, Waterloo [in 1815] admitted 28 Dec 1818; Private, 1st Regiment of Dragoon Guards; 2 years from 2 Dec 1818 to 8 Dec 1820; rate per day 9d (+); born Basingstoke, Hants; labourer; 5ft 11in brown eyes, fresh complexion; injured hearing from being wet in [or within?] France, numbed left leg & shortness of breath; Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner; Registers of Soldiers Who Served in Canada, 1743-1882 source
: '41cen? Robert (c1783-?) 58 pensioner b.Hants, at Sherfield upon Loddon, Hants, Martha 47, Charlotte 18, Sarah 12 (all 3 not b.Hants), James 9 b.Hants
Soupers continue in Chilean military : Colonel Roberto Souper, a Chilean, launched an unsuccessful coup d'�tat, 1973
: James Soper (1814-) 19 b.Winchester, a servant, deserted 7th Fusilers, 15 Jun 1833
: Benjamin Soper born Africa c.May 1819; Enlisted 1837 a black Private of 1st West Indies Regiment; Discharged Barbados 1859 injured, after 22y service; (6�y Africa & 15�y West Indies); Intended place of residence Sierra Leone; lost scan
: Benjamin Soper nr.1013, 3rd Bn, West India Regt, at Sierra Leone; British Army, Worldwide Index 1841 (census) scan : [So presume came from Sierra Leone, W.Africa]
: Richard Soper Pvte, 76th Foot, at Bristol; British Army, Worldwide Index 1841 (census)
- William Henry Soper (1830-1914) to US 1869; farmer m.Sarah Longman (1845-1922) 1884 Toronto, Can; b.Dev, Eng to William & Mary Granville; d.Iowa
- John Soper (1836-?) b.24 Jun 1836 Woolwich, Kent, Royal Navy nr 98822; Register of Seamen's Service ref ADM 188/112 nationalarchives; ['51cen trumpeter 14; '61cen gunner 24 RA; '71cen in Quebec; '81cen 45 bandsman "HMS Agincourt"; '91cen 54 pensioner, Stoke Damerel; '01cen 65 at Antony; '11cen 75 Devonport; ?d.1917 Devonport, age 81] : [army record]
- Mary Ann Soper b.1839 Woolwich, Kent; m.Henry Hidden Oct>Dec 1870, Woolwich, Lon (& 2nd m.registered again July>Aug 1872, Woolwich. why?); '81cen 28 below; 3 sons b.Woolwich 1872, 1874 & 1880; d.1901 Woolwich Hidden line
Staff Sgt Henry Hidden & dau
- Anna Soper b.1838; m.Mr.Peordon; d.6 Sep 1912 at Scranton, Greene, Iowa, age 73; parents Wm Soper & Mary Granville [might this be Caroline below??]
- Caroline Soper b.Apr>Jun 1840, Lewisham reg dist, Lon [inc.Woolwich]; '51cen age 10
- Henry Soper 'Harry' b.17 Feb 1844 [not vis bmd] to Wm & Mary Granville source; admitted 4 Oct 1853 age 10, transferred 14 Oct 1857 to Royal Artillery; source : ['Harry' age 7 '51cen; not vis '61/'71] : [no Lon birth vis bmd] : [only John vis '61cen] : to US 1864; m.Magdalene Moore 1872 ?at Putnam, Ill, farmer, both d.1930
- Elizabeth Ann Soper b.6 Apr 1846 Eng to Wm & Mary Granville; d.17 Oct 1929 at 10 Robert St, York, Toronto, age 83y; resident localy for 3m after 80y in Ontario, Can; informant George Bunker of Toronto; bur,19 Oct Necropolis source : [so to Canada c.1849, age 3]
: ? a John Soper (1836-?) b.Woolwich, Kt, 24 Jun 1836, Royal Navy nr 98822 : Register of Seamen's Service ref ADM 188/112 nationalarchives
: ['41cen John or parents not vis] : [assume William & family posted from Woolwich to Ire 1841-4 (& perhaps William died there - d.not obvious bmd?)]
: '51cen John (c1847-?) 14, b.Woolwich, Kt, trumpeter in 10th Battalion, Royal Artillery at Woolwich Barracks; at 10 Mill Lane, Woolwich Arsenal with Mary A 43 widowed laundress, b.Ireland; Mary A 12; Caroline 10 both b.Woolwich; Harry 7 b.Ire all scholars; sharing with Mary A Clark 25 married tailoress b.Ireland, {seems separate household, but some confusion with Mary, head crossed out & wife added) scan : [??might speculate Mary a dau, though many soldiers would returned with Irish wives; ??a Mary Ann Soper m.Richard Price St George Hanover Sq, Lon Jan>Mar 1849]
: '61cen John 24, b.Woolwich; Heacham, [Kent], Royal Artillery Regiment, 10th Brigade, at Portsmouth Town, 1 of 460 Royal Artillery soldiers & their families
: 1861 John, gunner nr.591,10th Brigade RA; British Army, Worldwide Index 1861
: 1870cen Henry 28 farmer, $1,350 personal estate, renting at Wheatland, Bureau, Illinois, USA; Thomas 22; Mary 60 house keeper all b.Eng; & farm hands James Morris 20 b.NY; David Gordon 14 b.NY scan
: '71cen John Soper Gunner nr.591, 10th Brigade, Royal Artillery; HQ; Malta Military; British Army, Worldwide Index : (6y 3m service at Malta) : ['71cen Henry farmer Illinois]
: '71cen Mary A Soaper (c1811-?) 60m, wife at 18 Engineer Rd, Woolwich, St Mary; b.Limerick, Ireland; with Mary A 28 m 'wife' b.Woolwich, Kent scan : [dau Mary A age c21 & m.1870; so speculate Mary A wife of John?? If so no m.obvious or her d.bef'81cen] [3 of the 4 households in property had wifes & dau's so speculate soldiers?] : [not vis '81cen; no d.vis bmd]
: 1876 John discharged 12 May 1876, age 39y 11d [so b~Apr 1836] 5ft 7�in; fresh face; grey eyes; light brown hair; trade nil; Total Service 21y 321d; 4�y Ceylon; 2y 4m Hong Kong; 4y 10m Canada; 9m Halifax; 6y 3m Malta
: '81cen : Mary Ann Soaper 75 widow, laundress at Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; b.Ireland with son in law with Henry Hidden 41 Staff Sergt A S Corps b.Hungerford, Berks; wife Mary Ann Hidden 40 & sons 9, 7 & 1 all b.Woolwich, Kt
: '81cen John 45 bandsman on "Agincourt", Royal Navy 45 b.Woolwich, Kent; (Minotaur-class ironclad frigate, 891 crew, part of Channel fleet) (Capt, Elibank H Muray 47 & Commander, John Coke Burtnel) : [assume same John] : [seems ship in active service wiki]
: 1885? a Mary Ann (c1808-1885) d.Oct>Dec 1885, Woolwich, Lon, age 77
: '91cen John Soper 54 pensioner, widower in 1 room at 49 Tavistock Rd (Kingers Arms), Stoke Damerel, Dev ; b.Woolwich, Kent sharing a room with with John Kane 48 organ blower b.Ireland & wife Harriett 79 b.Dev, also John Parson 45 beer retailer b.Dev & wife Selina 61 b.Con (28 in 9 rooms at address); scan
: 1900 dau Mary Ann Hidden d.Oct>Dec 1900, Woolwich, age 58
: '01cen John 65unm b.Woolwich, at Rowe St, Antony, Torpoint, Con, lodging in 3 rooms with Edwin G Bullock 34 gen lbr HM Dockyard Devonport, Emily 37, dau Alice S G Hobbs 13 dom serv; Beatrice M Bullock 4 all b.Devonport & Mary E 1 b.Torpoint : [Edwin Bullock m.Emily Hobbs Apr>Jun 1889 Stoke D : no Soper/Hobbs m.vis : ??an Emily Bryce m.Daniel Hobbs 1860 at SD]
: '11cen John 75 widow in 5 rooms at 46 Charlotte St, Devonport; b.Woolwich, Lon boarder with Edwin George Bullock 42 dockyard labourer, Emily 50 {m.22y 6 births, 2 alive}, dau 15 & 11 all b.Devonport & 3 other boarders 24, 25 & 37 ship workers scan : ['widower' but '01cen unm?]
: 1917 ?a John Soper d.Jan>Mar 1917 at Devonport, Dev, age 81
: Charles Soper nr.2258, 73rd Foot stationed at Calcutta & East Indies; British Army, Worldwide Index 1861 (census) scan
: 1857 Charles nr.2258, 73rd Foot; EC Bengal Pricy, Indian Mutiny Medal Roll 1857-9 scan; 1857
: [2 Charles Soper & Mary marriages in bmd 1) at Kensington 1858 (to Mary Ann Searle) & 2) at Stoke Dammerel 1862 (to Mary Parsons)]
- Mary Ann Soper b.c1864 Aldershot, Hants : [7 in '71cen, not vis bmd] : ['Anne' unm at 22 Thomas St, Carnavon 1886 (NofK to George)]
- Robert James Soper b.c1866 Shorncliffe, Camp, Kent; cadet age 9, RMA* 20 Nov 1874-11 Jul 1879 then apprenticed to 1st Bn, 24th Reg of Foot: ['71cen age 5; '91cen soldier 25]; Sgt, S.Wales Borderers; prisoner Boar war 1901 (biog); '01cen not vis; [?'11cen a Robert James 51 in Shrops]
- William Charles Soper bpt.4 Sep 1867, Llanbeblig, Caernarvon, Caernarvonshire (but b.reg Jul>Sep 1868 Carnavon); cadet age 7, RMA* 20 Nov 1874-20 Aug 1881 then apprenticed to 93rd Foot; Pvt Royal Highlanders; Sgt on leaving army Oct 1901 after 22y; '01cen not vis; [biog & military record]
- Frederick Henry Soper bpt.2 Dec 1869, Llanbeblig, RMA* 19 Mar 1880 - 22 Dec 1883 then to 2nd Royal [Hussars?] (WCS's record says Highlanders): F H Soper, Training Reserve Battalion, WW1]; not obv.'01cen
- George Alfred Soper b.Henwalia, bpt.30 May 1872, Llanbeblig : signed age 14 for 12y 2nd Bat, Lancashire Fusiliers 1886-97 inc.11y India military record; killed, Magersfontein, Lt.Corpl Royal Highlanders; 11 Nov 1899]
- Albert Ernest Soper b.Henwalia, bpt.24 May 1874, Llanbeblig : Pvt E.Kent Reg; Educated Royal Military Asylem; 1st good conduct pay restored & forfeited 5 times; imprisoned 3 times 97-9 but still resigned 1899 to complete 21y; 21 days Egypt 1900 & 288d S.Africa Military Record; d.29 Dec 1900 Harrismith
: 1865 ?with wife Mary, his 3 sons b.1865-70, cadets from 1874 apprenticed to 73rd Regt of Foot
: 186? He served on the permanent staff of 4th Batt, RW Fusiliers (Carnarvon Militia) for many years; mentioned in 1900 when son Sgt R J Soper late of South Wales Borderers, awarded Distinguished Conduct Medal, for service in S.Africa; 'N.Wales Express' 4 Oct 1901 scan
: '71cen; Charles 44 army pensioner b.Leeds, Yorks, Mary 33 b.Bodmin, Cornwall; Mary Ann 7, b.Aldershot, Hants, Robert James 5, b.Shorncliffe, Camp, Kent; William Charles 3, b.Carnavon; Frederick Henry 12m, b.Carnavon, Caernarvonshire
: 1874 Charles d.Jul>Sep 1874, age 48 (24 Jul) (& Mary d.1884 age 46), Carnarvon
: 1874 Sgt Soper of Royal Carnavon Militia, drowned 24 Jul 1874 attempting to save the life of a man who fell from a Menai Straits boat; left wife & 6 small children; widow in weak state of health, unfit to take any employment; subscriptions 7 Aug for her relief �38; S.Wales Independent 31 Sep 1874 scan
: 1874 Sergeant Charles Soper drowned. A fishing boat leaving the Bar 31 Aug, Carnarvon, was told body had passed. They took it to Carnarvon, where identiifed as Sgt Soper who fell in the Menai Straits 5w ago, doing duty as custom house officer on a barque. Inquest, drowned 1 Sep; Cambrian News 4 Sep 1874 scan
: '81cen Mary 43 widow, midwife at Caederw, Denbigh, Denbighshire; b.Bodmin Con; servant to Thomas Cason 38 bank manager & Major of Volunteers b.Lancs, wife 37, 5 kids 2-8, governess 23, cook 26, nurse 26, housemaid 20 scan
: '81cen William Charles 13 & Frederick Henry 11, 'scholars', both b.Caernarfon; with 209 boys in Royal Military Asylum, Kings Rd, London; scan
: '81cen George 9 & Albert 7, boarding with John Williams 45 butcher & wife Mary 48 all b.Caernarvon at 22 Thomas St, Llanbeblig, Caernavon scan
: 1884 Mary d.Jan>Mar 1884 age 46, Carnarvon
: children brought up with John Williams, butcher of Pool St, Carnarvon; & there 1900's
: '91cen son William 23 sergt Royal Highlanders at Queens Barracks, Barrack St, (East Church), Perth, Perthshire, Scot; b.Wales; scan
: '91cen Albert E 16 boy infantryman at Cheriton, Kent; under 'Lieut Col Chas E Partridge Build of P R W Kent R & T, Shornecliffe Camp'; b.Carnarvon, Carmarthenshire (rest of page all older privates) (mistranscribed as Albert C') *RHA=Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea for children of regular army
: 1896 R Soper Sergt 2580 'A' Coy, 2nd Batn, S Wales Borderers; witness; on 5 Dec 1896 I was orderly Sergt of A Coy; Aldershot Court of Enquiry, against 2 Pvtes with absence of kit ww1 records
: 1898 Sgt Soper, 2nd South Wales Borderers, his pretty shooting at 500 yards was a notable incidents of the Inter-Battalion match 2nd SWB v 1st Welsh; His rifle was no sooner at the shoulder than the ping of the bullet heard on the target, bringing forcibly home the fact of the deadly execution, at fixed sights, work in enemy ranks in a few seconds; S.Wales News 23 Jul 1898 scan : [?R Soper above]
: 1898 Charles Soper, Corp.73rd Foot 1898; record for sale forces-war-records.co.uk
: '61cen John 30, a labourer at Stoke Damerel, Dev; b.Oakhampton & wife Elizabeth S 30, charwoman b.Guernsey, Channel Islands; [both not vis after no John/Eliz S m.vis]
David Soper (c1823-?) b.Winchester [Hinnalt], Hants : a private, 3rd battalion, Grenadier Guards, quartered at Windsor, age 30. With Private Robinson, 22, took a butcher's cart into Windsor, 19 Oct 1852 (+wip, harness, horse, greatcoat & 9 stone of meat, value �27). Driving at a furious rate, through Thames St, Eton to Datchet a comrade recognised them. They arrested on returning to barracks at Sheet St within 2 hours. A search for the cart failed until morning when found overturned in Long Walk with horse grazing nearby. A fake alibi established felonious intent, rather than a lark, so 2 Nov Soper given 6 months hard labour & Robinson 3m in borough jail: from The Times 22 Oct & 'Daily News' 6 Nov; scan
: '41cen, a David Sopher 20-4, labourer b.Hants, at Town? Posts, Millbrook, Hants, with John Hoodley & family
: 1843 David Soper Pvte nr.4592 Grenadier Reg of Guards; attested 31 Oct 1843, age 21y 9m; discharged; b.1822 St John, Winchester, Hants; Chelsea pensioners british army records : [perhaps more details, but scans link goes to a different soldier]
: 1854 Served in the Crimea [war was 1853-6], receiving 2 medals & 4 bars; At Battle of Inkerman, nr Sevastepol (Russians trying to break the seige) 5 Nov 1854. Grenadiers the premier guards company lost 100+ killed from 236 (Casualties; Brits 2,500, French allies 900, Russians 12,000 : A famous painting of 3rd Bat remnant's roll call after Inkerman : 4 members of 3rd Batt got VC's in Crimea) (David named dau after it)
: 1861 David Soper Pvt nr.4592, 1st Foot Guards (Grenadier); Reg at Dublin; Curragh, Aldershot, Tower of London & Windsor; from Worldwide Army Index, 1861; rec nr.WO12 / 1641 from findmypast : Worldwide Army Index, from findmypast
: '61cen, a Private, Grenadier Guard, London
: 1868 two botched burglaries 1868 below (age 45, again with an accomplice age 22); 18m hard labour
: [at Cliffe, chalk burnt with charcoal formed cement. labouring there sounds tough on a 48/58 year old - pure speculation - but might the 18m hard labour' have been at Cliffe cement works, or was he sent when discharged from prison. Seems he met wife there]
: 1869 David Soper in Surrey Court, 11 Jan 1869; sentence imprisonment : from Criminal Registers from Ancestry.com (where crime available)
: 1869 David Soper & Epps found possessing items 24 Dec, from a burglary 3 days earlier when Rev Williams of Camberwell woke to find them in his bedroom, jemmying a draw, he gave chase with pistols. Soper served in the Crimea, receiving 2 medals & 4 bars, discharged 3 years earlier. So dispite a felony at Windsor, 2 Nov 1852 [see above], his bravery gave mercy & 18 months hard labour : from The Times 12 Jan 1869 177/746n : & oldbaileyonline.org James Williams vicar of St Giles, they stole 2 pairs shoes, 2 coats, a screw driver & other articles
: '71cen 48 unm, cement labourer lodging in Cliffe, Kent (on The Hoo peninsular by Thames. Works there expanded 1870, labourers suspended from waist ropes cutting chalk from cliff-face source
: 1873 David Soper m.Clara Ann Crabb at Edmonton, Lon Oct>Dec 1873
- ?a David Soper b.Oct>Dec.1873 Edmonton, Lon?
- Alice Inkerman Soper b.Oct>Dec 1874 Cliffe (N.Aylesford bmd dist) , '01cen age 24 with parent;. '11cen 34unm childrens nurse; d.1957 [named after 1854 Crimean battle]
: '81cen at Cliffe, a cement labourer 58, with wife Clara Ann 48 & Alice J 6
: '91cen at cement works, Cliffe 69 at 12 St Helens Terrace; Clara A 58 b.Brentwood, Sx; Alice J 16 b.Cliffe at Hoo, Kt; scan
: '01cen David 79 army pensioner, grenadier guards at 12 Station Rd, St Helens Terrace, Cliffe at Hoo, b.Hinnalt/Winnall, Hants, Clara A 67 b.Brentford, Ex & Alice I 24unm b.Cliffe; scan
: 1903 : Clara Ann d.Jul>Sep 1903 Strood, Kent or Apr>Jun 1904]
: 1910 a David Soper d Apr>Jun 1910 Chelsea Lon, age 36 [while definitely typed 36, speculate 86? & David the Grenadier Guard age 79 in '01cen, as no other David to pin death to - perhaps David died a Chelsea pensioner?]
: '11cen Alice Inkerman Soper 34unm childrens maid at 24 Chayne Court, Chelsea, Lon, b.Cliffe, Kent; servant to John Rowlinnson 44 architect, wife 53, dau 14 & 11 both at school scan
: 1957 an Alice I Soper d.Jan>Mar 1957 Surrey NE, age 82
: Corp William Soper of The Coldstream Guards took part in Crimean Heros procession in Sheffield. He was engaged at the Alma without sustaining any injury, but was wounded in the groin & the jaw at the battle of Balaclava; in 'Sheffield & Rotherham Independent' 6 Oct 1855, from news.bl.uk : scan ; [Battle of Balaclava, 25 Oct 1854] : [not obvious '51/'61cen or elsewhere, no Staffs Soper] : [connection? another Soper in Coldsteam Guards, W Soper d.Boar War 1855 below]
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Lewis Soper, Private 3632, 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade, Slight Wound, Minor actions at Sebastopol, 1 Sep 1855, 1 of 12 from the battalion. From Gen Simpson's despatch 'The health of the troops excellent, I enclose a list of casualties' 31 Aug-2 Sept [a long list] : from The Times 20 Sept 1855 124/746n Casualty Rolls of the Crimean War of 1854-56 London Gazette : ['81cen only Lewis 12 b.Hennock, Dev, on a farm in Hennock with widowed mother Lucy 43 b.Bovey Tracey running a large family & farm but presumably the Lewis Samuel died age 16, 1885, Newton Abbot (bmd)] : ['71cen age 32 pvt Rifle Brigade]
: [? a John b.Stoke Gabriel near Totnes, 4 Apr 1856, nr87186, Admiralty's Registers of Seamen's Services nationalarchives.gov.uk]
3 Indian Mutiny Medals, Honourable East India Company men who fought in India Mutiny 1857-9
: John Soper, Private, 1st Bengal European D, L, [clasps for Delhi & Lucknow] Transferred to 4th Bengal Fusiliers britishmedals.us [see 1859]
: Charles Soper, Corporal, nr.2258, 73rd Foot; EC Bengal Pricy : [a Charles, b.c1827, army pensioner, '71cen] : [?with wife Mary, his 3 sons b.1865-70, cadets from 1874] : [a Sarah Soper m.William Higgins (c1830-?) b.Galway] : [Private 73rd Foot, medals for 2nd & 3rd Kaffir Wars 1846-53] : [son William, b.Limerick 1866]
: Louis Soper, Private, 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade Nominal Indian Mutiny Roll : [pvt Rifle Brigade 1854-77; b.c1836 military record]
Alfred Soper Pte [nr.1171] Hants Reg 1887
Charles Soper Corp 73th Foot 1857, India : [see 1846]
Charles Soper Pte 73rd Foot, 1846 : [see 1846]
Frederick William Soper Pte [2139] Hants Reg 1887, Burma
F Soper Drvr Artillery 1910
F Soaper Pte Cavalry at SA : [see Frederick's army record]
F P P Soper Lt. Essex Reg, 1902
Henry Soaper discharged
James Soper Pte R.Marines m.1874
John Soper, Pte, Bengal Fusiliers, India Mutiny
John Soper discharge 1870
John Walter Soper Tpr Kitchener's Horse, 1899
Lewis Soper Pte Rifle Brigade, Sebastopol : [c.1855] : [Louis pvt Rifle Brigade 1854-77; b.c1836 military record]
Louis Soper Pte 1857 India : [pvt Rifle Brigade 1854-77; b.c1836 military record]
Peter Soper Tpr Yeomanry : [Imperial Yeomanry. see1899-1902]
Sarah Jane Soper m.pte J.Trick, 1870
Charles Soper Sgt nr.2258, 73rd Foot; Reg at Calcutta East Indies; rec nr.WO12/8043 : [see 1846]
David Soper Pvt nr.4592, 1st Foot Guards (Grenadier); Reg at Dublin; Curragh; Aldershot; Tower of London; Windsor; rec nr.WO12/1641> [see David's biog above]
Henry Soper Pvt nr.175, 76th Foot; Reg at Glasgow; rec nr.WO12/8237
John Soper Pvt nr.998, 101st Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers); Reg at Mooltan (Multan E.I.) (1862); rec nr.WO12/988 : [got India Mutiny medal & a Soper recommended Good Conduct Medal. 1st Bengal European Fusiliers, renamed 101st Royal Bengal Fusiliers, 1861 & moved from India to England]
: John Soper Gunner nr.591, 10th Brigade RA; Reg at Blockhouse Fort, Fort Monkton, Fort Elson, Portsmouth & I of W; rec nr.WO10/2604 army record : [William m.Mary Granville 1827]
: Louis Soper Pvt nr.413, 2nd Btn, Rifle Brigade; at Subathoo East Indies [Himachal Pradesh India]; rec nr.WO12/10151 military record]
: Robert Soper Pvt nr.454, 1st Btn, 60th Foot (Kings Royal Rifle Corps); at Dover; rec nr.WO12/6919 : [age 28, '61cen below]
: William H Soper Pvt nr.484, 29th Foot (Worcestershire); at Aldershot; rec nr.WO12/4545 : [age 19, '61cen below]
: William Verner Soper Sgt nr.1222, 2nd Btn, 6th Foot (Royal 1st Warwickshire) Depot; at Cork; rec nr.WO12/2456; '81cen a school visitor; d.Jan>Mar 1884, Lambeth age 48 : [an army sgt, see army record]
: David Soper nr.4592, 1st Foot Guards (Grenadier) Regiment, stationed at Dublin; Curragh; Aldershot; Tower of London; & Windsor; British Army, Worldwide Index 1861 (census) scan
: ['71cen not vis; '81cen an Edward 26 army pensioner at Paradise Cottages, Lon, b.Hamth {b.c1855 not vis bmd} so would have joined age c13 if him]
'11cen Harry 43 electrical warehouseman, worker at electrical engineers in 3 rooms at 92 Garden Buildings [3 rooms - 'Duteb? Storage'] St Olave, Bermondsey, Lon; b.Deptford, Kt; Mary Ellen 43 {21y, 6 children, 5 alive} b.Dublin, Ireland, Ethel May 13 school b.Peckham, Lon, Gertrude Elenor 11 school, Winifred 9, Dorothy Lilian 7 all b.Bermonsey; scan
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David Soper & Thomas Epps burgled Rev Williams's parsonage The Crescent, Camberwell 20 Dec. They woke him 3am attempting to jemmy open a chest of draws at his bed. He jumped out bed & the 2 men ran down back stairs, he took 2 loaded pistols from the chest & followed them down the main stairs but they escaped through the back door Jury returned guilty. Prisoners then pleaded guilty to 2nd burglary of Mr Jones's house. Prosecutor recommended mercy as Soper served in the Crimea [war was 1853-6] receiving 2 medals & 4 bar for good service. He conducted himself well before being discharged 3y earlier [abt 1865]. So dispite a felony at Windsor, 2 Nov 1852, [see 1853 & Surrey notes], his bravery gave mercy & 18 months hard labour; in 'Daily News (London, England),' 13 Jan 1869, from news.bl.uk; scan & oldbaileyonline.org : [see 1852 above]
: '71cen Louis Soper Private nr.413, 2nd Battalion, The Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade; HQ at Dover; British Army, Worldwide Index 1871
: ??Samuel Soper b.1847, service in the Royal Marine Light Infantry, Plymouth Division, Nr.299; Records of RMLI (Portsmouth Div); Public Records Office
'81cen Samuel 35 Cavalry Barracks, Walmer, Kent; b.Deptford, Dev & Caroline 40 Salcombe, Dev : [m.Caroline Sullock 1872, E.Stonehouse, Dev]
: Thomas Soper Private nr.1259, 1st Bn 25th (King's Own Borderers) Regiment of Foot; HQ; Gosport, British Army, Worldwide Index 1871
British Army, Worldwide Index 1871
: '71cen C S Souper Lieutenant 17th Brigade, Royal Artillery; HQ at Dover; Detached at Woolwich during the June Quarter 1871; British Army, Worldwide Index 1871 : [Lieut Charles Edward Souper m.Annie McCausland, 1873]
: '71cen E Soper Private nr.1341 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot; HQ at Agra, India; British Army, Worldwide Index 1871
: '71cen Edwin C Soper Gunner nr.2168, 7th Brigade Royal Artillery; HQ at Woolwich, Isle of Wight, Gosport & Weymouth; British Army, Worldwide Index 1871 : [b.1855 m.Sarah Haley 1883ecs]
: '71cen George Soper shoeing smith nr.1568, 14th Brigade, Royal Artillery; HQ at Woolwich; British Army, Worldwide Index 187 : [George (1840-?) army record]
: '71cen above John Soper Private nr.1113, 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot; HQ at Fort Tregantle, Ireland; British Army, Worldwide Index 1871 : [not linked]
: '71cen John Soper Gunner nr.591, 10th Brigade, Royal Artillery; HQ at Malta; British Army, Worldwide Index 1871 : [William m.Mary Granville 1827]
: '71cen above Louis Soper Private nr.413, 2nd Battalion, The Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade; HQ at Dover; British Army, Worldwide Index 1871
: '71cen Thomas Soper Recruit nr.Unnumbered, Depot - Portsmouth Recruiting District (2); HQ at Portsmouth; Recruit belonging to 2nd Bn 7th Regt. Enlisted at Salisbury; British Army, Worldwide Index 1871
: '71cen Thomas Soper Private nr.1259, 1st Bn 25th (King's Own Borderers) Regiment of Foot; HQ at Gosport; British Army, Worldwide Index 1871 1 : [see Thomas above]
: '71cen Tom Soper Recruit nr.2233, 2nd Bn 7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot; HQ at Portland; British Army, Worldwide Index 1871
: '71cen above William V Soper Colour Sergeant nr.1222, 2nd Bn 6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot; HQ at Buttevant, Ireland; British Army, Worldwide Index 1871 : [an army sgt, see army record]
: & 2nd? Pvt John Soper 57th Foot, Applied c.9 Jul 1869; Character v.good 1m; Discharge by Purchase �20 Com of P 57th service 2y 29d; discharged 7 Aug 1871 army record : [so joined Jun 1869 & implies different soldier?]
: '71cen John (c1850-?), [in Apr] age 21unm, b.Torquay, Dev, Pvt 57th Regiment. Military District, Anthony, Cornwall; 495 people in Maker Barracks & various forts & redoubt '71cen; Page 107/10 www.freecen.org.uk : [not obvious '61cen/'81cen]
: [a James b.1875 S'tn (to George & Charlotte m.1865 & missing from '01cen)]
: [James G Soper, Corporal 2/3 Wessex Field Ambulance A list of Bitterne* men who served in the 1914-18 war : source (*an east S'tn suburb)]
: ['11cen; a James George Soper, 34, parish fireman at Southampton b.Bedford & a James George Soper of Bitterne Park in Southampton Directory 1912]
Robert J Soper (c1863-?) admitted 10 Mar 1874, age 9, discharged 7 Nov 1879, apprenticed as an Army Volunteer to 24th Regiment of Foot, 1st Bn
William Charles Soper (c1867-?) admitted 10 Mar 1874, age 7 discharged 20 Aug 1881, apprenticed as an Army Volunteer to 93rd Foot, Sunderland Highlanders : [see]
Frederick H Soper (c1870-?) admitted 19 Mar 1880, age 10, discharged 22 Dec 1883, apprenticed as an Army Volunteer to 2nd Royal Hussars [a Frederick H Soper, Training Reserve Battalion, WW1]
1881 census Frederick H Soper, 11 & William Charles Soper 13 with 209 boys in in Royal Military Asylum, Kings Rd, London.
[assume father, Corporal Charles Soper, 73rd Foot : a private 1846 & was in '71cen]
C B Soaper, Staff Paymaster p.72 'Hart's Annual Army, Militia & Imperial Yeomanry Lists' - Page 72, snippet : GoogleBooks.com
C Soaper, 1872-73 mentioned p.260, 'The Story of the Royal Military Academy' pub 1900
: [??perhaps the Charles in Rifle Brigade 1879 for 81 days above]
: [b.1860 Hounslow, Army Pensioner's Record, National Archives from findmypast]
: ['81cen Charles age 20, unm, b.Hounslow, M.sex, Private Infantry, Grand Shaft Barracks, Western Heights, Hougham, Dover, Kent : One of 6 privates age 16-21 with an acting Lieutenant 29 source] : [2 London born Charles in '71cen]
: ['01cen 2 possible Charles's 40 carriage labourer at Willesden, M.sex b.Marylebone & Charles 39 a domestic coachman at Oving, Sx b.c1862 St Pancras, Lon]
: [??a Charles (c1860-1906) bur.25 Dec, age 46 at Allababad, Bengal, India : a Guard E.I. Ry. (East Indian Railway)]
Arthur Soper 22 an army reservist at 5 Paradise Cottages, London with parents John 54 plasterer b.Knightsbridge Susan 55 b.Goham, Cambs : ['Edwin Charles' b.1855 Arthur George b.1859 both Kensington; family]
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John James Arnsby Soper Lieutenant resigns his Commission. 21st Middlesex (the Finsbury) [Volunteer Rifle corps?] 14 Apr 1883. (London Gazette 13 Apr) [see legal sopers]
: Job's medal for sale Egypt & Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Gemaizah 1888 (1072 Pte. J. Soper, 1/Welsh R.) some edge bruising, Auctioned 2013 estimate �180-220; [& 2015 $645]; Job b.Rampisham, nr.Maiden Newton, Dor. A labourer, attested for the Welsh Reg 28 Feb 1885, aged 24y 6m. Served overseas in Egypt & Sudan, Dec 1886-Aug 1889; discharged, time expired, 27 Feb 1897 source : [Job m.Ellen Smith Apr>Jun 1893]
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J Soper nr.1017, Royal Artillery attested Oct 1886 at Royal Horse Artillery; AR; page 347; Chelsea Pensioners' discharge document scan
Alfred (1863-1943) bpt.26 Apr Amport, to Henry/Sophia (b.Jan>Mar Andover bmd) : army record b.Weyhill; mother Mary Ann of Amport; in army 1883-1919; Pvte, Hants Reg & Scottish Rifles; Malta 84, East indies 85-8; Burma 88-91; Home service WW1; 1915 wife Ann at Newport; m.Sarah Risley, widow 11 Mar 1919; d.30 Dec, age 80, both Droxford, S'ton
: ['81cen 2 Alfreds in Hants (master greengrocer 29 at Landport; '91cen not vis, '01cen grocer, I of W) & ag lab 28 at Penton (m.1874 & there '91cen, carter '01cen)]
: Charles Valentine Soper b.14 Feb 1865 [Valentine's day] at 1 Richmond Cottages, Lambeth: (b.Jan>Mar bmd) only son of Charles barrister's clerk & Ann Coveney (ne Adams) who m.1865 Lambeth
: 2 Nov 1914 Attested Rifleman nr.R/6299 5th Batt, King's Royal Rifle Corps; promoted Sgt & medical at Dublin same day; hazel eyes; greyish hair; C of E; 5ft 4in; 120lbs; 34�>37in; age 47y 210d; eyes 6/6; good physical development; vaccinaede as infant; married; musician; b.Lambeth; Enlisted for service in the United Kingdom only; Army Reserve (Special Reservists) for 1y service; Previous service Kings Royal Rifle Corps, nr.51; Dis[charge>]/claimed after 18y 18 Aug 1899; Discharged 23 Jan 1915 at WInchester at own request to join National Reserve after 83 days service: wife of 141 Upper Dorset St, Dublin; **2nd Army Record scans : [not on WW1 War medal list] : His military records
? - perhaps the Arthur Soper 34 police constable at Liberty of Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Place, Ely Rents, Lon in '01cen; b.Bristol, Glos; & wife Kathleen Soper 35 b.Weymouth, Dev & Ethel 7 b.Lon : [he was an army pensioner] : [see police 1893]
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James George Soper (1874-?) Trooper, nr.4208, 18th Hussars 1894-1903: b.Southampton: 5ft 9in; weight 140lbs; chest 36in, fresh complexion; grey eyes; reddish brown hair; C of E; I.S. tattooed on back of left forearm Enlisted age 20 a porter: previous service R.Hants Reg; discharged by purchase 1 Apr 1893; medical 16 Aug 1894 Winchester; Join The Corps of Hussars; Posted 18th Hussars 19 Aug 1894 appointed Trooper 3 Nov; 14 days for drunkeness 27 Dec 1898; Transferred to A Reserve 1 Sep 1902: Discharged 16 Aug 1903 (12y? 351d service) army record : [James b.Jan>Mar 1875 to George & Charlotte Joynt, m.1865 both at Southampton]
: Surgeon's slip for Gnr Soper 86881 about foot injury; scan
: '01cen Frank 19 b.Bolton, Lancs '01cen, Private at Shropshire Light Infantry Depot; scan
A C W Soper, a colonial volunteer in South Africa with 'the Royal Canadians'. He wrote from Winnipeg, Manitoba that the regiment sailed home Oct 1902, but himself & others were too sick to travel. He had problems if his pay should be paid by Canada or Britain; from The Times 20 Mar 1902 - 573/746n : [Sailed Southampton>Halifax 1903 age 29] : [seems Albert Charles Watson a Scot who emigrated 1892]
: A Soper Private (?-1900) died of disease in Harrismith, 28 Dec 1900 : reported in The Times of 2 Jan 1901, as 1 of 29 casualties from disease, giving his number as 2323, 2nd Royal West Kent Regiment : 2 other welsh brothers fought & survived
: Private A Soper Guardian paper, 2 Jan says he died of enteric fever, Harrismith
: Educated at Royal Military Asylum 1st good conduct pay was restored & forfeited 5 times; imprisoned 3 times 97-9 but still resigned 1899 to complete 21y; service 12y home, 21d Egypt & 288d S.Africa Military Record
- 'Another War Victim' from the Carnarvon Herald: 4 Jan 1901. News has been received of the death in Harrismith, from enteric fever, of Private A Soper, who was brought up with Mr John Williams, butcher of Pool St. Some time back another brother, who was well-known in this town, was killed in South Africa : Carnarvon News, N.Wales Express 4 Jan source : [Albert Ernest? : see father Charles a soldier 1846]
F Soaper, 12th Lancers : Boer War List : [see Frederick's army record]
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F P P Soper, 2nd Lieut 1st Volunteer Battalion, the Essex Reg. granted the temporary rank of Lieut whilst serving with Volunteer Company in S.Africa. 9 Mar 1901 (London Gazette 18 Jun) : a supernunerary (London Gazette 25 Jun) : 2nd Lieut FPP Soper to be Lieutenant & remain Supernumerary. 19 Mar 1902 (London Gazette 18 Mar) : Relinquish Commission & granted honorary rank of Lieutenant with permission to wear the uniform 2 Sep 1902 (10 Oct) : Honorary Lieutenant 23 Sep (13 Jan 1903)
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Capt F P P Soper, transport officer, Army Service Corps, East Anglian Divisional Transport & Supply Column, Essex Brigade, Bay Lodge, The Green; Stratford Trade Directory 1912
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Frank Percy Philpott Soper (1875-?) a Lieutenant in 1st Volunteer Battalion, Essex Regiment, invalided back to England, on 'The Simla', from Cape Town, leaving 27 Apr 1902 from The Times, 1 May 1902 575/746n (well looked after - 31 injured officers with 5 surgeons & 6 nursing sisters arrived 23 May, Southampton) : source : 199 of the 571 men were landed at Plymouth, 21 May, Soper continued to Southampton
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F P P Soper, Lieut 1st Volunteer Battalion, Essex Reg to be Instructor of Musketry. 31 Oct 1903 (http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27610/pages/6613 30 Oct) : F P P Soper Lieut & Instructor of Musketry to be Captain. 3 Feb 1904. (http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27641/pages/702">London Gazette
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Frank P P Soper, Capt (Honorary Lieutenant) from Essex Brigade Company, East Anglian Divisional Transport & Supply Column, Army Service Corps, to be Major 9 Dec 1911 (London Gazette Jun 1912)
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Capt F P P Soper, transport officer, Army Service Corps, East Anglian Divisional Transport & Supply Column, Essex Brigade, Bay Lodge, The Green; Stratford Trade Directory 1912
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F P P Soper, Major from East Anglian Divnl. Train, to be Major 14 Nov 1916. Army Service Corps (London Gazette 10 Nov)
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Frank Percy Philpott Soper late of The Breakers Seaton, Dev, formerly of St Thomas Mansions Westminster Bridge, London (d. 8 Jan 1939). His will proved 24 Apr 1939 by Walter Reginald Tuckett, the surviving executor. Claims on Estate by 11 Jul (London Gazette 5 May)
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Frank William Sopper (1879-1939) b.Jul>Sep, Wandsworth, Lon : 2nd Lt, also 18th Hussars : Boer WarList [so 1899-1902] : ['81cen age 1, b.Streatham, at 122 Upper Tulse Hill, Streatham, Surrey, parents William 27 member of The London Stock Exchange & Sarah A] : ['91cen, a Frank Sopper, 11 lodging with 5 siblings 5-11 at Holdenhurst, Hampshire] : Kent 1901 below : Sailed NY 1913 : m.Yvonne J Temperley Apr>Jun 1913, London (Yvonne d.1918 age 37) : Capt, Major & Lieut Col 1914-20 : At Ashley Gdns, SW1 1921 : to Kenya 1923? : Round World 1949? : [sister? an Edith Sopper m.Charles Cape also of 18th Hussars 1908] : [Lt Col Frank William Sopper, of Stratherrick. see 1939]
: George Alfred Soper (1872-?) Private nr.1548 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers 1886-1897; born Carnavon, Carnarvonshire; Next of kin, sister, Anne Soper 22 Thomas St, Carnavon; Educated Royal Military Asylum; former trade boy (Chelsea) / or a tailor, 4ft 10�in, weight 72lbs; chest 27in, fresh complexion, brown eyes, dark brown hair; C of E; scar outer angle, right eye, line, dots left forearm; vaccinated in infancy & 3y ago; Attested as a 'Boy' at Chatham 6 Mar 1886, London, for 12 years age 14y 0m [so b~Mar 1872]; medical 5 Mar at RN Asylem, Chelsea; Posted Manchester 24 Mar 86; lost GC pay 4 times, 14d prisn; Back from india SS Simla 28 Oct 1897; Discharged free after 12 years 22 Nov 1897 (11y 262d) Posted India as Boy, 2nd Bn Lancs Fus 4 Oct 87; landed India 3 Nov army record
: G Soper Lt. Corpl, Royal Highlanders of Pool St, Caernarfon was killed on 11 Dec 1899 at Magersiontein [link], two months after the outbreak of the Boer War [George Alfred see 1867]
: George Soper, lance corporal 2nd Battalion, Royal Highlanders �3 19s 4d. (effects 1899-1900). Personal estate held by the Secretary of State for War for distribution to next of kin (London Gazette 26 Feb 1901) : [of Caernarfon : d.1899 boar war
: Lance-Corporal Soper (Black Watch), wounded at Magersfontein, has died of his wounds. He was well known in Carnarvon, being an orphan reared up by John Williams, butcher, Pool Street. Soper's father at one time held a post in the Barracks, at Carnarvon, where the deceased was born. 'Killed in the War' from Carnarvon & Denbigh Herald: 22 Dec 1899 : carnarvontraders.com : ['81cen George 9 & Albert 7, with John Williams]
: George Soper Lance-Corporal nr.6878, 2 Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), Casualty details: Killed 11 Dec 1899 at Magersfontein (Official casualty roll location: Magersfontein): 2 Battalion The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), source S.African Field Force. JB Hayward & Sons
: G A Soper, Lance Corporal, killed, 2nd Battalion of Royal Highland at the Battle of Magersfontein : from The Times 18 Dec 1899 531/746n
. . . he served 12y in 28th Reg (Lancashire Fusiliers). On discharge he joined 2nd Bat, Black Watch. One of the smartest men in the service, 6ft 2in & of muscular build. His brother, W Soper of same regiment is in S.Africa. letter to Miss Williams, dau of Mr John Williams, butcher who brought them up when father died : [undated paper snippet]
: Lance Corp G A Soper on list of 41 killed from 2nd Batt, Royal Highlanders, Black Watch, ; Evening Express 16 Dec 1899 scan
L-Corp Soper (Black Watch), wounded at Magersfontein, has died of wounds. Well known in Carnarvon, an orphan reared by John Williams, butcher, Pool St. His father held a post in the Barracks at Carnarvon where he was born Weekly Mail 23 Dec 1899 scan
: Corporal G Soper, 2nd Batt. Royal Highlanders & Private A Soper, 2nd Batt. Royal West Kent Reg on Transvaal War Monument, Canarvon, unveiled Saturday with 1,000s people; Carnarvon Herald 8 Jul 1904 scan
: Sgt H Soper, 1st Wilts Rifle Volunteers in Queen's Hundred shooting competition at Bisley Camp ; [with less than average score of 208] Evening Express 21 Jul 1899 scan
: 1866 Robert James Soper b.c1866 Shorncliffe, Camp, Kent; father Charles, Pvt 73rd Foot, see father's biog
: 1874 cadet age 9, RMA* 20 Nov 1874-11 Jul 1879 then apprenticed to 1st Bn, 24th Reg of Foot: [5 in '71cen with widowed father]
: '91cen Robert 'brother' 25unm private soldier infantry at 1 Btn South Wales Borderers & all officers, N C officers & men, women & children attached South Camp, Aldershot, Hants; living at Farnham, Sy; b.Shorncliffe, Kent scan : [all on page either 'son' or 'brother', odd as page lists them under soldiers; Batch for 25 officers; 855 soldiers, 128 wives & children & 10 dom servants]
: 1896 Sergt R Soper nr.2580 'A' Cuy, 2nd bn, S.Wales Borderers at Aldershot, sworn as a witness at court of enquiry about a pvt's absence & last kit, was orderly Sergt 5 Dec 96 scan
: 1898 Sergent R J Soper, South Wales Borderer, 1 of 243 men awarded long-service & Good-conduct medals : from Guardian Newspaper, 6 Jan 1898
: 1901 Sgt R J Soper 2580 South Wales Borderers (London Gazette 10 Sep 1901) mentioned in despatches, Boar War Men who distinguished themselves with special & meritorious service in South Africa, [v.long list] angloboerwar.com : [not vis '01cen]
: 1901 Sgt R J Soper late of South Wales Borderers, awarded Distinquished Conduct Medal, for service in S.Africa; his father served on the permanant staff of 4th Batt, RW Fusiliers (Carnarvon Militia) for many years; 'N.Wales Express' 4 Oct 1901 scan
: '11cen ??a Robert James Sopper (c1860-?) 51 in 5 rooms at 2 The Elms, Highley nr.Bridgnorth [Cleobury Mortimer RD], Shrops b.not known, Eng; visiting Mary E Lawton 48 widow {m.22, 2 births} b.Silverdale, Staffs, dau 14 & son 6 both b.Highley, Shrops scan [too old & wrong spelling, but not vis elsewhere]
: W Soper; Pvt Coldstream Guards (QSA) Medal Clasps: Belmont, Modder River, Dreifontein : [connection? another Soper in Coldsteam Guards, Corp William Soper injured Crimea 1855 above]
Alfred Soper (c1882-?) Soldier 19. Gunner Royal Garrison Artillery, at Shoeburyness Barracks, South Shoebury, Essex, age 19, b.Crawley, Sussex. Head, Colonel of Royal Artillery, John Ford Bally; scan : [ '91cen no Alfred 9 vis, (?An Alfred 7 at Stoke, Sy; b.Pirbright, Sy) : '11cen not vis]
Charles Souper (c1842-?) 59 at South Weald, Ex, b.Bedford (/'Bradfield'?), Berks, an Army Colonel : Anna Souper 59 b.Ireland : Frances Souper b.c1873 28, b.Woolwich, Lon : Richard Souper c1878, 23, b.Ireland an oganist & ... : Charles Souper c1880, 21, b.Ireland a flautist : [m.1873 biog]
David Soper (c1822-?) Army Pensioner Guard, at Hinnalt, Hampshire, age 79, b.Cliffe At Hoo, Kent : [see court case 1852] : ['91cen a cement labourer, Cliffe]�: ['91cen household head at Cliffe, b.Wichester, Hants (wife Clara Ann 58, dau Alice J 16 b.Cliff at Hoo)]�: ['11cen not visable]
: '01cen Frank 19 b.Bolton, Lancs '01cen, Private at Shropshire Light Infantry Depot; scan : [Frank b.Apr>Jun 1883, Bolton, Lancs to Frederick & Mary Jane Lloyd who m. at Bolton]
Frank Sopper (c1880-?) 2nd Liententant, at Newington, Lon, age 36, b.Kentish Town : [see 1899]
Frederick Sopper (c1865-?) Royal Army Clothing Dept, at Canterbury, Kent, age 21, b.London : ['81cen, a Frederick Sopper, 18 Stock Brokers Clerk�at Lambeth son of William & Ann (an calico warehouseman)] ['91cen, a Frederick Sopper 28 with parents, William & Ann at Lambeth, Lon]
Ivo Frank Soper (c1883-?) Private Royal Marines 18unm at Royal Marine Barracks, Chatham, Kent; b.Clapham, London; scan : ['91cen, Ivo F Soper 8 with parents at Lambeth, London. b.Clapham; & sailed to Canada 1906 as labourer; (not vis UK bmd)]
John Soper (c1877-?) Army Pensioner, at Broughton, Hampshire, age 24, b.Little Ann, Hants : [pensioned at 24; presume injured Boar War?] : ['91cen, 15 with parents Henry & Merian at Hurstbourne Priors, Hants. b.Abbots Ann]
John Soper (c1879-?) Gunner R G A, [Royal Garrison Artillery] at Channel Islands, Jersey, age 22, b.Exeter, St Thomas, Dev : scan: [?a J Soper in Royal Militia of Jersey 1914]
John Soper (c1866-?), a private 'navy man', b.Stonehouse, Devon, age 35, at Royal Marine Barracks, East Stonehouse, 904 people under Colonel Commandant Frederick Baldwin
John Soper 22unm gunner RGA in barracks Channel Islands; b.Exeter, St Thomas, Dev; scan : [father William m.1874]
Samuel Soper (c1882-?) Private Rmli, [Royal Marines Light Infantry] at ?, age 19, b.Okehampton, Devon
William Soper (c1856-?) Private Soldier Royal Reserves, at Chislehurst, Kent, age 45, b.Chislehurst, Kent : ['91cen, with mother Ellen, 35]
William Soper (c1857-?) Bombardier, Royal Field Artillery 44 father, at Preston Barracks, Lewes Rd, (St Peter), Brighton, Sussex, b.Chislehurst, Kent; 378 NCOs & men, 48 wives, 12 officers; scan a; b; c; d : ['91cen, with mother Ellen, 35]
William Saper (c1879-?) Lieut Royal Horse Guards, at Kent, age 22, b.Ireland
William James Soper (c1881-?) Driver, Army Service Corps 20 at Granby Barracks, Devon Militia Artillery Depot (463 men + families), Devonport, Dev [Stoke-Damerel RD]; b.Plymouth, Copside, Dev; scan : [William James m.Lilian Ann Beer 1905, Plymouth]
R J Soper Sergeant, The South Wales Borderers to have the Distinguished Conduct Medal (London Gazette 27 Sep) : [1898] : [see Caenarfon]
From the Carnarvon & Denbigh Herald 1901 : 31 Oct. Canarvon Men who Fought in the the late Transvaal War, 4 Sopers all of Pool Street (2 killed)
: [There were 2 boys in '81cen, George 9 & Albert 7, boarding with John Williams, a butcher, both b.Caernarvon, but the older? brothers W & R were not there. However, Wm.Chas. 13 & Fredk. Henry 11, were 'scholars' at Royal Mill Asylum, London in the census, both b. Caernarfon.]
: James Soper, Private nr3799, wounded in South Africa, 2nd East Surrey Reg from General Warren's Force, 2nd Division (28 killed or wounded in the regiment on this casualty list) 20 Jan 1901 : from The Times 31 Jan 532/746n
: Pte J Soper East Surrey Regt 3799 wounded at Spearman's Camp 21 Jan 1901 angloboerwar.com : [This farm was gained the day before, was below Spion Kop held by Boars] : On Natal Field Force Casualty Roll, page 116 line 14
: J Soper, Private, nr3799, 2nd Battalion, East Surrey Reg; Wounded 21 Jan 1900 at Spearman's Camp; 'Natal Field Force' pub.JB Hayward
: J Soper, Private 3799 of 2nd East Surrey Reg reported seriously ill with enteric fever, at Charleston, Field Hospital, South Africa, 3 Mar 1901; from The Times 8 Mar 1901 555/746n : [not obv '01cen, taken Apr]
: W Soper, Quarter Master Sgt, 3rd Batt, Kings Own Scottish Borderers, Distinguished Conduct Medal : from 1 Nov 1902, from The Times:188/211p
: Colour-Serg Soper, Kings Own Scottish Borderers, came to police office & said PC Goddes to go to married men's quarters. Serg Foote had killed his wife at midnight with fist; Jury death by manslaughter; Berwick Police Court; in 'Newcastle Courant' (pub.) 9 Mar 1895, from newspapers.bl.uk
: '39cen Henry Soper 76 widow, retired pensioner, royal �; colour sergeant, Ply 259� (b.20 Jun 1863) at 37 Vigornia Ave, Worcester, Worcs; also Olive Bevan 20 Feb 1885 dom duties at home, married & line 3 temp withheld scan : [b. or d.not vis bmd]
: E Sopper 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenant 4 Aug 1906 17th (Duke of Cambridge's Ovm) Lancers (Gazette 12 Oct) : Liet E Sopper Order under diseases of Animals Act, importing dogs 9 Sept 1913 (Gazette 16 Sep)
: E Sopper Lieut 1907, Officer's Records. WO 339/6292 nationalarchives.gov.uk
: Ernest Sopper, Lieutenant 17th Lancers, to be Adjutant, Nottinghamshire (South Nottinghamshire Hussars) & Lieut Sopper granted temporary rank of Captain in the Territorial Force whilst Adjutant. Yeomanry 16 Sept 1913 (Gazette 26 Feb)
:�vice� ?Replaced in S.Notts Hussars? 23 Oct 1915 (Gazette 4 Jul)
: E Sopper Capt to be acting Major whilst employed on Head Quarters of a Yeo. Regt. 31 May 1917 (Gazette 3 Aug)
: E Sopper: Capt, promoted to the rank of Captain. A supernumerary restored to the establishment. 22 Feb 1917 (Gazette 28 Aug)
: E Sopper : Capt. to be Maj. (temp) 31 May 1917 (Substituted for that which appeared in Gazette of 3 Aug 1917)
: Ernest Sopper, Capt (T./Maj) Lrs. Awarded Military Cross ( Gazette 9 Apr)
: E Sopper, Major (temp) MC, Capt Lancers, relinquishes his commission in the TF on ceasing to be employed 10 Jul 1918 (Gazette 19 Jul)
: Ernest Sopper, Capt. (T./Maj.) MC, 17th Lrs, attd. 6th Bn., Leic. Regiment (Gazette 30 May 1919)
: E Sopper, D.S.O., M.C. Capt. Leic. R. (17th Lrs.), relinquishes the actg. rank of Maj on ceasing to be 2nd in command, 6th Bn. 7 May 1919 (Gazette 20 Feb)
: E Sopper, DSO., MC., Maj. 17th L. retires on ret. pay. 1 Apr 1921 (Gazette 29 Mar) :
: E Sopper, Major Transferred to reserve of officers, retains present seniority (Gazette 24 Nov 1922)
: E Sopper, D.S.O., M.C. Maj. 17th/2lst L. has attained age limit of liability to recall, ceases to belong to the Reserve of Offices, 2 Apr 1936 (Gazette 3 Apr 1936)
: E Sopper, Maj. (late I7th/21st L.) D.S.O., M.C. (42572), ret. Pay, Reverts to rank of Lt whilst employed in present emergency. 22 Feb 1941 (Gazette 15 Apr)
: E Sopper, Lt. D.S.O., M.C. (42572), (late 17th/21st L.), is restd. to the rank of Major 4 Dec 1941 (Gazette 23 Jan)
?a George Frederick Soper (c1860-1907) army pensioner; d.8 Mar, gardener of Belgrave Rd, Mutley, Plymouth, Dev; died Dunedin. New Zealand; probate Exeter 28 Sep 1907 to Edmund Albert Heaven; estate �44; from Probate Calender, scan : [so d.not in bmd : died age 47 NZ bmd (but b.c1860 not vis uk bmd)] : [see Devon]
: 1919 William C Soper, Driver, Royal Field Artillery, nr62197; WW1 medal list : [assumed from above]
- Alfred Soper 22unm private Devon Regiment at Royal Military Barracks (West Side of common), Woolwich Common; b.Plympton, Dev (page of privates, bombadier & boys from many regiments) scan & scan b : [parents
James Adolphus m.Louisa Jane 1883 E.Stonehouse]
- Alfred Charles Soper 15 boy; military duties, training depot RS at Stanhope Lines, Aldershot, [Farnham RD], Hants; b.Aldershot (boys of 14 & 15) scan
: [m.Winifred E South 1918, Lon]
- Arthur E Loper, 18 at Weymouth, Dorset
- Arthur Soper, 22unm Bugler, Infantry, 3rd Bn, King's Royal Rifle Corps, at Dagshai, India; Overseas Military; b.Horsham, Sussex scan [d.WW1] : [parents James m.Sarah Jane Chapham 1884]
- Aubrey Soper 29unm gunner, RGA company at Fort Grange nr.Gosport, Wickham; b.Crawley, Sx; on page of unm gunners 19-38 scan [Aubrey m.Florence E Harford 1912 Horsham, Sx] : an Aubrey, nr6914 Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery WW1
- Charles Soper 19unm Lance Corporal, 2nd Dublin Fusiliers at Aldershot Barracks, b.Hartley Wintney, Hants; Lance Corporal 2nd Dublin Fusiliers; b.Dublin, Ireland; on page, 2 serg's, 3 corp's, 4 l.corp's, 1 boy & 16 pvts scan : [still Lance Corporal WW1 - a surprise as promoted young & after mass conscription] : [not vis '01cen; ??might he have been a seaman by 1923? & 1936]
- Edith Nellie Soper, 20 at Alverstoke, Hampshire
- Edward F Soper, 27 at Weymouth, Dorset
- Ernest Soper private 17 at Hill/Barracks/Garden/The, Hendon, Middlesex; b.St Olave (Bermondsey), Sy [WW1 record]
- Ernest Soper18unm Private, Grenadier Guards, Guards Depot, Caterham. Surrey; b.Barry, Glamorganshire; page of unm privates 18-24 scan : [parents George Wilmot Soper & Decima Robins 1889, Bristol]
- Frank William Sopper, 31 at Andover, Hampshire see below
- Frank Soper 24 rifleman in 4th Bn The Rifle Brigade, The Citadel, Cairo; b.Padworth, Reading, Berks (was a baker) scan : ['01cen Frank 15 errand boy at Pamber, Hants]
- Frances Soper, 23 (female) at York, Yorkshire East Riding
- Frederick Soper 28 private in rooms at Lancaster Fusiliers, Andover; b.Bolton, Lancs [7 of the 30 on page b.Lancs; ages 18-33] scan [not vis '01cen]
- Frederick James Soper, 21unm private, 1st Battallion, Lincolnshire Regt, at Aden, b.Lon scan [ to France WW1 Lincs Reg WW1, service medals Pvte nr7950 & Sgt nr8025] : [b.1888 Ealing to William & Mary Anne Thompson who m.1885; m.Alice Mary Soper Barnet, Herts 1915; to India, Sgt Major, family born there; d.23 Nov 1955 Newbury, bur Wolverton; from Gerald Soper's site; family photos from grgrson's site
- Frederick Soper 20unm driver in rooms at Z Battery, Royal Horse Artillery at Cantonments, Potchefstroom, Transvall, South Africa [75m SW of Johannesburg wiki]; b.Glastonbury, Somerset [page of drivers 18-30] scan [not vis '01cen; '91cen]
- George Soper, 20 at Portsmouth, Hants
- Henry Soper 21 army officer at [Putney/Roehampton/Cottages/Rd/E], Wandsworth; Clara 17 church �; both b.Putney, Sy
- Henry J Soper, 23 at Medway, Kent
- Henry Frederick Soper (c1851-?) 60 pensioner, Royal Marines in 6 rooms at 95 Colledge Rd, Deal, (Eastry dist), Kent b.Andover, Hants; Jane Emma Soper 47 {m.19y, no births} b.Deal, Kent; & boarders Lucy Lowlinson 62 widow {m42y, 9 births, 7 alive} b.Hucknal, Notts & Lottie Lowlinson 7 school b.Nottingham scan : [m.1880]
- James Henry Soper 26unm Private, 1st Bn Dev Reg at barracks, North Tidworth, Pewsey, Wilts; b.Plympton, Dev; on page of 30unm soldiers headed by armourer staff sgt, Army Ordinance Corp; scan : ['91/'10cen & b.not vis]
John Soper at (c1879-?) gunner R G A, [Royal Garrison Artillery] at Channel Islands 22; b.St Thomas, Exeter, Dev : scan
- Joseph Soper 24unm private, 9th Lancers at Netheravon S O, Salisbury, Wilts; b.Andover, Hants; page has 30 unm privates from abt 20 regiments; unit's 1st page headed by Capt Jams Tapley 33, Army Training Corps & a Lieut from each Reg scan a b : [assume Cavalry School, Choulston Camp founded 1904 by Baden Powell wiki] : [parents Henry & Miriam Wise m.1868 Andover]
- Leonard Soper 22unm Private, 2nd Batt, The Prince Albert's Somersetshire Light Infantry, St Andrews Barracks, Malta; b.Plymouth, Dev scan : [Leonard b.6 Aug 1889]
- Sidney Soper 19unm private 2nd Yorkshire Fusiliers in military at [Barracks/N W] Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorks; b.Millwall, London scan : [enlisted 1910, discharged 1912]
- Thomas Soper 23unm; private, 1st Bn South Lancashire Reg, Napier Barracks, Lahore Cantonment, India; b.Surrey, Lon scan : [parents Thomas m.Elizabeth Ewington 1888, Southwark, Lon]
: William Soper 49 RMLI pensioner & insurance agent in 5 rooms at 5 Alexandra Ter, Totnes, Dev; b.Plymouth, Dev; Lillie Soper 31 (m.8y, 1 birth} b.Torquay, Dev; Francis Soper 8; b.Totnes scan : [m.Lillie Ellen L Couch .1902; not obvious in Army Soper Notes]
- William Soper 30unm nurse, corporal in 22 Company, Royal Army Medical Corps, Castle Town, Cape of Good Hope District, South Africa; b.St Lawrence, Jersey, Channel Islands scan : [parents Edwin m.Jane Susan Gaundin c1871]
- William Soper 19unm private, Royal Marines Light Infantry at Browndown Camp, Lee on Solent, nr.Gosport, Fareham, Hants; b.Southampton, Hants; page of unm Pvts, 18-31 with L.Corp 23 & bugler 15 scan : [parents William m.Mary Ann E Collins 1889, Southampton]
Albert Soper army nr.15801 d.1914;
Archibald Soper army nr.10533 d.1915 [d.ww1]
George Soper army nr.11226 d.1915
George Soper army nr.5165 d.1916
Harry Soper army nr.21806 d.1916
Sidney Soper army nr.17100 d.1916
Charles William Soper army nr.32160 d.1917
Sidney Walter Soper army nr.42342 d.1917)
Harry Arthur Thomas Soper army nr.491991 d.1917
John Edgar Soper army nr.24413 d.1917
John Gilbert Soper army nr.11970 d.1917
Henry Soper army nr.421492 d.1917
Frederick Charles Soper army nr.201693 d.1918
A W Soper appointed temporary Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps : BMJ 15 Sep 1918
A W Soper Temporary Lieutenant to temporary Captain of Royal Army Medical Corp : BMJ Sept 1918
A W Soper relinquished their Royal Army Medical Corp commissions, a temp Captain, retaining the rank of Captain: BMJ May 1919 : [see biog]
: 1925 Alfred Ernest Soper (previously a fireman) of Hatcham, Beds, attested 14 Apr 25, age 32y 11m, for 2y. Formerly of Lancers & MGC; discharged as trooper 13 Apr 1927 Canterbury scan
: Alvin Edwin Soper b.26 Oct 1898 Basingstoke to William & Sarah Jane Perry who m.1884 Bullington, Andover, Hants
: [�91cen William 29 at Chilbolton, Hants; b.Andover, Sarah 27 b.Bullington, Florence 6 b.Bransbury, Frances 4 b.Tufton, Edith 1m b.Chilbolton (all b.Hants)]
: [�01cen William (1861-?) carter on farm at Preston Candover, Hants 40 b.Andover; Sarah 39 b.Bullington; Edith 10; Violet 7; Frederick 5 all b.Chilbolton; Alven 2 b.Preston Candover]
: ['11cen James 58 farm carter / labourer in 5 rooms at Woodmancote, Micheldever Stn, Hants; b.Andover, Hants; Jane 48 {m.24y, 9 births; all alive}; b.Bullington, Hants Violet May 17; Frederick Charles 15 under carter on farm; both b.Chilbolton, Hants Alvin Edwin 13; Gertrude Louisa 10; William James 8 all b.Axford, Hants Richard Sidney Thomas 1 b.Steverton, Hants & boarder David Spyers 22unm farm carter b.Candover, Hants scan]
: Alvin E Soper m.Oct>Dec 1923 to Ada Munday at Alton, Hants
: Alvin C Soper b.Jan>Mar 1930 Leighton Buzzard, Beds (mother nee Munday) m.Hilda M Lewin Apr>Jun 1953 Eton, Bucks
: Carol A Soper b.Apr>Jun 1944 Wycombe (mother nee Munday)
: Alvin E Soper d.Oct>Dec 1960 Wycombe, age 62
: Fran, a relation, Perth, Oz, researching source; family lore; gassed France then Egypt, got malaria; in UK rehab hospital; Photos show him in France? & desert in pith style helmet
: Alvin's dau Joyce her son, Norman (from Eng ; 'I know it's more complicated') also researching source
: RAF record Winchester? 8 Sep 17 Pvt 274 Inf Btn; to Oxford 14 Dec 17; & to Warwick Reg 15 Feb 18 scan : [see RAF 1918]
[WW1 service medal list available from National Archive]
Not Archie E[lliot] Soper, Air Mechanic 1st Class, RAF 1918)
:
? a Charles J Soper, Private, Wiltshire Regiment, nr202597 & nr35822 [same Charles J?]
Lieut C A Souper 1914-1919 Officer's Record. Armed forces service records ref WO 374/64166 nationalarchives.gov.uk [Charles Alexander Souper? b.1879]
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Charles Harry Soper nr.70291; (then 538638 in 31); b.1 Jan 00 [= not known??] Camden Town, Lon; attested 15 Mar 19, harness maker; Transferred 20 Hrs 19 May 19; Egypt 10 Jul 19-28 Jun 20; Black Sea to 20 Nov 21; to 11th Hrs 28 Oct 21; India 21 Nov 21-19 Jan 26; to Sec.B AR 14 Mar 26; sister Mrs Edmondston, Claries Nellie H, Kingersdorp, S.A; Re-engaged 15 Mar 31 sec D AR (4 years) Para 422(B) IKR; Discharged rank Trooper 14 Mar 35 Canterbury; Para 497 (viii) Kings Regs; Character Exemplary; B108-11H/65 (a sapper from 1914-19) [scan in WW1 record above] : [Charles H m.Gladys M Phillips 1924 Poole]
: [see Clarissa M Soper Whitburn, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps in WW1 below]
: [Charles Joseph Soper Whitburn of Clement�s Ln & William Reeves (of same?) discount brokers & creditors' of London & Metroplitan Bank Ltd, petitioned it�s winding up 21 Jul 1866 : Hearing adjourned (London Gazette 21 Sep)]
: 1863 Charles Joseph Lofer Whitburn m.Fanny Sadler or Hales/Halls Oct>Dec 1863 (bmd)
: 1867 Charles William S Whitburn b.Jul>Sep 1867 Wandsworth, Lon (bmd)
: 1881 Charles W S Whitburn 13 b.Clapham, Sy. boarder at Eton College 1881 census
: 1891 Fanny Juliana Whitburn dau of Charles & Fanny b.Jan>Mar 1873 Wandsworth & d,Apr>Jun 1891 Malling. Kt, age 18
: 1897 Mr Soper Whitburn owned 'Fidget' & 'Sharzada' polo pony 1897
: 1906 Mr & Mrs Soper Whitburn (& 300 others) at Melton Mobray Hunt Ball [, Lei], with Viennese Band, at Corn Exchange; 'Stamford Mercury' (pub.Lincs) 9 Feb 1906
: 1909 Charles Joseph Soper Whitburn, London Land Tax Valuation, residence 6 Apr 1909
: [Charles W Soper Whitburn m.Clarissa Mary Heseltine (b.25 Nov 1878 Kensington) [m.Oct>Dec St Geo H.Sq]]
: 1910 Mr Soper Whitburn attended a bachelors party of Major Laycock at Wisedon Hall : Court Circular : from Guardian paper, 11 Sept 1910
: 1910 Mrs Soper Whitburn at Goodwood Races, Suffolk 1910
: '11cen Charles Joseph Soper Whitburn (c1837-?) 74 banker at 16 Ennisre Gdns, St George, London b.Lambeth, Surrey, wife Fanny 72, 10 servants inc 3 footmen
: 1912 Charles (c1836-1912) a bill broker/discount agent d.1912 age 76 leaving an estate of �1,481,000; death duties �237k; Died yesterday, London Telegraph 9 Jan [d.Oct>Dec 1911 St G H.Sq, age 74)
: 1814 Col C W Soper Whitburn, to be Lieutenant Colonel, Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry, 3 Jun 1914; London Gazette
: 1919 Mrs Soper Whitburn held dance at 38 Grosvenor Place, The Times Court Circular 1919
: 1921 ?a Fanny Whitburn (c1837-1921) d.Oct>Dec, St George Hanover Sq, Lon, age 84
: 1922 horse trainer 1922
: 1922 Mrs Soper Whitburn. horse race owner, as keen a follower of the game as almost anyone of the sterner sex; won �11,458 from 12 horses winning 22 races; won Chester cup 1922]
: 1923 selling Maidstone property 1923
: 1924 Mr Soper Whitburn, planning application for bathroom, Sefton Lodge, Bury Rd; Newmarket Council, Mar 1924 source
: 1929 of Amport St Mary, Andover, won 2nd prize in Hampshire Down Shearling Ram 1929]
: 1939 Col C W S Soper's property Amport House, Adover, Wilts requistioned by Air Ministry Sep 1939
: '39cen connection? a Clariss M Soper Whitburn 60m private means (b.27 Nov 1878) at 23 Culross St, City of Westminster, Lon; & line 2 temp withheld; Airua Krumbock b.13 Jun 1910 housemaid (private S) unm [crossed out]; & Rellie Thwaites b.31 Aug 1891 ladies maid unm scan
: 1961 � went to C W Soper Whitburn, Addington Park, West Mailing, Kent,� p.624 �. went to him to manage his estate and was there for 9 years ; hired Boughton �: snippet from Who Was Who pub.1961 Google Books
Edward Joseph Soper Temp Capt, RAOC [Royal Army Ordnance Corps] - Allenby's Despatch of 23 Oct 1918, from 'University of London - Officer's Training Corps' p.193 (pub 1921) source : [to Major 1920 : retired? 1921] : [E J S relinquished commission 1944]
: [Frederick William Soper m.Rosa Hallett Jul>Sep 1886; Margaret Emma Soper b.Jan>Mar 1895 (Frederick b.c1889 not vis - (but a d.1893 age 5?)) Edward Joseph Soper b.Oct>Dec 1889 all Wandsworth (b.10 Oct 1889 see below [or 'b.15 Oct' in '39cen])]
: ?'91cen not vis; but an Edwin J 1 & Frederick 2 grandsons in Stoke under Hamdon, Somerset, both b.Wandsworth : Frederick W 29 head at Wandsworth (Rosa not visable - Bessie 24? b.S.set) (& no Edwin birth in bmd) (a Frederick John d.Oct>Dec 1893 age 5?)
: ? '01cen Frederick W Soper 28 railway clerk on own at 3 Fullerton Rd, (St Faiths), Wandsworth, Lon '91cen; b.Chichester, Sx; scan
: '01cen Edward 11 at Kingston on Thames, Sy, b.Wandsworth presume with Frederick 38 railway clerk b.Chichester, Sx, Rosa 39 b.S.set & Margaret 6 b.Wandsworth
: 1905 Edward Jos junior clerk, Audit Office, Waterloo, London & S.Western Railway in 1 May 1905; b.c.Dec 1890, age 15y 5m; recomended by Sir Charles Scotter; wage �30 pa to �35 May 06, �10 inc pa to Apr 10; clerk Apr 09; �90 Apr 14; Volunteered for military service ; Appointed Lieut 22 Jan 1915; Allowed half pay during absence on his account' �95 Apr 15; �100 Apr 16; �110 Apr 17; �120 Oct 18; Resumed 3 Jan 1921; recomended by Sir Charles Scotter; record scan : [his father a railway clerk]
: '11cen Edward Joseph 21 a railway clerk b.Wandsworth, with widow Rosa 49 at Kingston, Surrey : b.Oct>Dec 1889 Wandsworth (Frederick William d.Apr>Jun 1908, Kingston age 45 (?& a Rosa d.Hammersmith Oct>Dec 1925 age 74?))
: 1915 Medals for sale : 1914-5 Star - British War Medal. Silver issue - Interallied Victory - Mention-in-Despatches MID emblem - Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers Decoration, GV & top bar : sold with research, & photographs : source; [for sale dnw.co.uk �500, 2015]
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: 1914 Major Edward Joseph Soper, Malay States Volunteer Regiment, late Army Ordnance Dept, interned by the Japanese in Singapore [WW2]; 4 medals for sale �500, 1914-15 Star (Lieut, AOD); British War & Victory Medals, MID. oak leaf (Capt); Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers� Decoration, GVR, reverse engraved, �Capt E J Soper, MSVR�, with top brooch bar, mounted court style for wear, very fine & better (4) dnw.co.uk
- 1916 Educated University of London, joined OTC, from which appointed Temp Lieut, Army Ordnance Dept 22 Jan 1915. Temp Capt Jul 1916 |& Acting Major Nov 1918.
- 1919 Served Egypt, Nov 1915-Oct 1919 : Mentioned in despatches of General Allenby, C-in-C. Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 23 Oct 1918 (London Gazette 22 Jan 1919).
: [seems not the unknown officer photo' Mesopotamia WW1 above as clef chin?]
: 1920 Temp Capt Soper relinquished acting rank of Major 21 Nov 1920 & relinquished commission on completion of service 2 Dec 1920 & granted rank of Major
: 1923 After WW1 worked on Malayan Civil Service, appointed Engineering Accountant Sep 1923 & held various account or financial posts.
: 1923 Edward J Soper 33 a Major R of O [Reserve of Officers] m.Annie Violet Macdonald 28, at St James, Piccadilly 18 Sep 1923; fathers Frederick William (dec) railway official & Sutherland Macdonald, artist of 76 Jermyn St, SW; witnesses Sutherland Macdonald & J C Witt scan : [m.Jul>Sep, St Martins reg dist]
: 1923 Edward Joseph accountant 34 & Anne Violet 26 sailed 1st class on "Rhesus" (China Mutual Line) from Liverpool to Singapore, departing 22 Sep 1923; address 81 Shortlands Rd, Kingston on Thames; Last permanent residence England; Intended future residence Malaya; scan : [see Malay notes]
: 1923 Edward�Joseph 34 & Anne Violet 26 sailed from Liverpool to Singapore, 1923; from findmypast.com
: 1927 Anne Violet Soper (c1897-?) 30 english citizen 'OBC', Barbara Anne Soper 1�; [job & relationship not given] Last permanant address Malaya; address 3 Guildford Ave, Surbiton, Surrey; sailed 1st class on "Kyber" (P&O Line) from Singapore (ship from Yokohama, Japan) arriving London, Eng 18 May 1927; scan; UK Incoming Register
: 1927 Served in Malay States Volunteer Regiment, Lieut Dec 1923, Capt Apr 1927 & Major Jan 1932, c1928 undertook duties of unit's Quartermaster
: 1923 E J S age 34 & Anne Violet Soper, 26 sailed from Liverpool to Singapore, 1923 & with wife & infant 1928
: 1928 E J Soper sailed on "Rajputana" (P & O Line), London to Singapore, from 15 Jun 1928; scan error
: 1928 ?a Mrs Soper & Infant Soper sailed on "Rajputana" (P & O), London to Singapore, from 7 Oct 1928; scan error
: 1930 Awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, (Malay States Government Gazette 28 Sep 1928). Awarded Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers� Decoration 1930.
: 1932 Edward (c1890-?) 42 accountant; Anne 35 & Barbara 1 english citizens; Last permanent address Malaya (or? Straits Settlement); address 'Ardinay' Avenue, Elmers, Surbiton, Surrey; sailed 1st class from Singapore on "Corfu" (P&O Line), arriving London, Eng 13 May 1932 scan; UK Incoming Register {??mispost as wife Anne, so perhaps others?}
: 1932 Maj E Soper crown agent sailed 1st class on "Ranchi" (P & O Line), London to Singapore, from 11 Nov 1932; Last permanant residence Eng (on page of 1st & 2nd class crown agents, ship continued to Japan); scan; from findmypast
: 1933 E J Soper government sailed 1st class on "Carthage" (P & O), London to Hong Kong, China, from 17 Mar 1933; Last permanant residence Eng scan
: 1935 Anne V Soper (c1896-?) 39 home duties, sailed 1st class on "Ranpura" (P & O Line) from Penang, arriving London, Eng 25 Oct 1935; Last permanant address Malaya; Planned future residence England; address 3 Guildford Ave, Surbiton; (ship from Yokohama, Japan), scan; UK Incoming Register
: '39cen Edward J 49 colonial service (b.15 Oct 1889) at Red House, guest house, Ashacre Ln, Worthing, Sx [Major, RAR Federateil Malay States, Vo�]; Anne V 43 unpaid dom duties (b.27 Feb 1896); with Margery Heath b.21 Dec 1894 proprietress guest house, unm; (1st line temp withheld); Henry Tipper b.30 Jul 1860 banker retired, widowed; Joan M Bistow (Tipper) b.4 Oct udd, unm; Richard T Bristow 18 May 1873 private secretary, retired, unm & Victoria A ?plice 30 Dec 1860 private means, unm; Laura M Heauth b.6 Jun 1899 secretary, furniture fitters; unm & line 11 temp withheld scan
: 1939 E J Soper (1889-?) rly accountant 50 sailed on "Calchas" (Glen Line), London to Penang, Malaysia, from 13 Nov 1939; scan error
: 1939 War declared 1939, he resign from the Volunteers so he could be retained with Federation of Malay States Railways. In charge of Kuala Lumpur's Air Raid Precautions Service. [sailed London to Penang, Malaysia 1939 age 50]
: 1940 Anne V nursing sister 44 sailed 1st class on "Sarpedon" (Blue Funnel Line), Liverpool to Singapore, from 3 Mar 1940; address 3 Guildford Ave, Surbiton, Surrey; Last permanant residence England; Intended future residence Malaya (Marseilles, Port Said, Colombo, Straights, China & Japan) ; scan;
: 1941 Anne V letter to "Straits Times" 2 Mar 1941, formed to entertain British other ranks stationed or passing through Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia; club run by European women in Town Hall, but �5k collected for a new building. hon sec Mrs E J Soper Kuala Lumpar Anzac Club, 8 Maxwell Rd, KL source : [Anne was Mrs E J, letter on right]
: 1941 ??a Soper commanded 21st Battery (with 6 x 3.7inch howitzers), 22nd Mountain Reg : 21st attached to 8th Indian Brigade Malay Command 1941
: Interned as a civilian with the Japanese invasion, held at Changi Jail, Singapore.
: Returned to England on release & employed by the Crown Agents & War Office.
: 1949 Barbara Anne Soper m.Dr R Selby Henderson at St. Bartholemew's-the-Less, London. Parents, Major & Mrs E J Soper, lived for a long time in Malaya. Mr Soper Chief Accountant's Department of the FMS Raillways; photo ; Straights Times 22 Feb 1949
: 1955 Edward (b.15 Oct 1915*) civil servant 40* & Anne 60 (b.21 Feb 1895) tourist class on "Ivernia", S'tn to New York, 8 Jul 1955 Last & future residence Eng; scan
: 1959 Edward retired 70 (b.10 Oct 1889) & Anne 64 (b.21 Feb 1895) sailed on "Ivernia" (Cunard Line) from Southampton to Montreal, Canada, departing 8 Jul 1959 address 36 Terminus Ave, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex; Last permanent residence & intended future residence England; scan
: 1965 Edward d.4 Feb 1965 Latterly living at Bexhill-on-Sea, Sx, [d.Jan>Mar Battle reg dist age 75]
: 1973 Anne Violet Soper d.Jan>Mar 1973 Battle reg dist; b.21 Feb 1895
: Ernest Soper resworn at Mountain Ash Police Court having served in the army; 'Aberdare Leader'; 1 Mar 1919 source
: Ernest Soper Pvte Grenadier Guards, convalescing at home Merthyr St, Barry Docks, discharged from Garswood Hall Hospital, Ashton, Lancs. Wounded at Ypres; "A bullet passed through my left hand & I bent my head when my face was stung by shrapnel exploding 2 yds away, when a bullet whizzed over me & lodged in my pack. It was a lucky shave." He fought in the battle of the Aisne, but fighting fiercer at Ypres. "Germans had a maxim gun each end of our Company. One Ypres charge of 280 strong returned 1�h later with 1 officer & 68 men. Sopers Company mentioned in Sir John French's despatches. "We held the outnumbered position for a week & kept Von Kluck's Army at bay'; Barry Docks News 15 Dec 1914 scan; "I had a narrow escape the day I got hit� Barry Dock News 25 Dec 1914 scan : [parents George Wilmot Soper & Decima Robins 1889, Bristol]
: F J Soper on Torquay Town Memorial (&?) on Church, Memorial : [a Frederick J Soper, 55 Abbey Rd, parish of St Lukes, Cyclists (territorials) in Torquay Directory 21 Oct 1914 [same person?] : source
: not the F J Soper Distinguished Service Medal, GVR. as a petty officer on HMS Marmora 1917, sold �660 auction Jul 2014 Bonhams Frederick James sailor: [image right]
: [connection? an F J Soper Serg, South Wales Borderers; Honours & Awards of the South African War: Boar War]
: Frederick Soper, Gunner, Royal Horse Artillery, nr51646, received service medals
: 1920 Fredeick James Soper 29725 Pte 11th Bn, MGC P C of Devon, Torquay Division0 55 Abbey Rd, Tormoham, Torquay. Dev; 1920 Absent Voters List scan
: 1921 Frederick James Soper 7808697 Pte MGC PC of Devon, Torquay Div; 55 Abbey Rd; 672 Spring; Absent Voters List scan
: 1922 Frederick James Soper 7808697 Pte Tank Corps PC of Devon, Torquay Div; 55 Abbey Rd; 670 Autumn; Absent Voters List scan
: Frederick Thomas Soper m.Buley Amelia Hold Oct>Dec 1907, Camberwell, Lon (bmd); ?m.15 Dec 1907; b.30 Apr 1883 Camberwell [b.Apr>Jun Lambeth reg dist] to Thomas Alfred & Eliza Mary Ruddell m.1882
: Frederick Thomas b.Apr>Jun 1883 Lambeth bmd dist, Lon; b.Walworth; bpt 29 Feb 1884
- ?Florence Soper b.c1907 Camberwell [from '11cen not in army record unless 'Mir 25 Dec 07'] (a Florence b.Apr>Jun 1907 Hampstead; a Florence Louise Soper b.Apr>Jun 1907 Southwark)
- Frederick William Soper 24 Jul 1908; [b.Jul>Sep] Camberwell; a fitter; m.Alexandra M Lewis Oct>Dec 1937, Camberwell
- Winifred A Soper b.9 Jun 1910; (?Winifred Amelia Soper in '11cen) : [Winifred Alice Soper b.Apr>Jul Camberwell] a Winifred Alicem.Edgar Paul Russ 10 Aug 1935, 2 children; Edgar s.Alberta, Canada 1935, Alice d.2004 source
- Thomas G[eorge] Soper b.17 Mar 1912; [b.Apr>Jun 1912 Camberwell dist]; '39cen 27unm coal winder
- Arthur E Soper b.30 Jun 1914 (or 20 Jun); [b.Jul>Sep 1914 Camberwell dist]; m.Molly Doyle 1939, Camberwell; '39cen butchers shop ass
& also from bmd
- Lilian M Soper b.31 Mar 1920; [b.Apr>Jun] Camberwell (mother nee Hold); '39cen 19unm grocery ass; m.Harold R Williams Apr>Jun 1946 C'well
- Henry W Soper b.Oct>Dec 1923 Camberwell (m.ne Hold); m.Eileen A F Williams Apr>Jun 1946 C'well [?shared m above?]
- Violet M Soper b.Jan>Mar 1926 Camberwell (m.ne Hold); m.Terence McCarthy Jul>Sep 1946 C'well
: '01cen Thomas 46 festry? labourer (road lbr) [vestry=local council] in 3 rooms at 37 Revesby St, Newington, Lon; b.Lambeth, Lon; Elizabeth 40 b.Walworth, Lon; Frederick 18 b.Lambeth; Richard errand boy 16; Henry 12; Elizabeth 10; Emily 5; Alfred 4 all b.Walworth, Lon ; scan
: '11cen Frederick Thomas (c1884-?) 27 woodworking machinist for builders in 3 room apartment at 32 Mansion St, Camberwell [sharing with widowed mother's family] b.Lambeth South, Lon; Bulry Amelia {m.3y, 2 births, still alive} b.Thornton Heath, Sy; Frederick William 2 b.Peckham, Lon; Winifred Amelia 9m, b.Camberwell, Lon scan
: '39cen Frederick T 56 wood machinist (b.30 Apr 1883) at 39 Lomond Grove, Camberwell; Burley A 54 unpaid dom duties (b.3 Sep 1885); George (Thomas) 27unm coal winder (b.17 Mar 1912); Lilian M Soper (will m.Mr Williams 'dhq 6/5/46') 19unm grocery & provision assistant (b.31 Mar 1920); 5th line temp withheld scan
: '39cen Violet M Soper (will m.Mr.McCarthy, '10/11/48? afd m') 13 at school (b.13 Jan 1926) at 2 Charts Edge Cottage, Sevenoaks, Kent; with Thomas A Manser b.13 Sep 1910 chauffer, gardener; Dorothy Manser b.16 Dec 1912 udd; 3rd line temp withheld; 4th Violet scan
: 1952 Frederick T d.18 Sep 1952, Lon, age 69; Intered Camberwell Old Cemetery : [d.Jul>Sep Camberwell, age 69]
: 1957 Buley A m.Thomas Gray Jan>Mar 1957 Camberwell
George Soper (c1864-) nr.115035; then nr.291219; pioneer Coy.D 3rd Labour Battalion, Royal Engineers; & 702 Labour Coy; b.Meeth?, Dev [c.Feb 1864]; clay miner; Joined 17 Aug 1915 Whitehall; 5ft 11in; 11st 3lbs; Chest 37-40; fair development; vision D=6; 4 vaccination marks; slight defects, tatt arm; Enlisted 18 Aug 1915 for duration of war, age 49y 150d; Landed in France 25 Aug 1915 BEF; 28 May-11 Jun 1918 special leave to UK, B.2137; rejoined from leave 15 Jun 1918; Nr.2 Dispersal Unit 24 Jan 1919 Fovant, [Wilts] �2 advance; 1 Feb 1919 to LGBD for demob B213; to Fovant for demob 15 May 1919; Package sent from Nottingham 17 Nov 1920 nr.291219 Merton Village, nr.Dolton, Dev; military scans : [George m.Helena Lugg 1896, Huish]
: ['11cen George Henry Soper (c1871-?) head at [77 Borough Rd/George/The/W] age 40 government office keepers b.Brent: wife Elizabeth 39 b.?: Thomas Henry Soper 15 apprentice ..maker b.?, : Fredrick Soper 12 school b.Aldershot, Hants: Agnes Mary Soper 7 school b.?, Lon: George Albert Soper 5 b.Camberwell, Lon: Robert Owen Soper 3 b.Borough, Lon: May Elizabeth Soper 1 b.Borough, Lon]
: 1915 Private H Soper 1st Batt, Somerset Light Infantry, at POW Internment Camp, Westphalia sent 1 of 6 parcels of food from Mountain Ash to PoW; Aberdare Leader 3 Jul 1915 : [he'd be 14]
: 1915 H Soper 1st Batt Somersets & 19 others 'our boys', PoW in Germany, sent parcels last week; Aberdare Leader 2 Oct 1915 cymru1914.org
: 1915 Pte Bert Soper of the Somersets, asks to be remembered to some of the railwaymen at Aberdare & [Mr] Tatem of the Mountain Ash Constitutional Club. As an old member he thinks they might do something for him. Poor old Soper, the world has moved since he fell into the hands of the Huns. Mr Tatem is fighting in the Dardanelles. Aberdare Leader 16 Oct 1915 cymru1914.org : [unsympathetic tone to PoWs?; ie 'pvt.Henebery complains he doesn't get parcels']
: 1916 Private H Soper Somerset Light Infantry, POW in Germany, writes to Mr & Mrs Tatem, he's quite well. A lots happened since he started his journey to Redhill; Denbighshire Press 8 Jul 1916 scan
: 1916 Private H Soper, Somerset Light Infantry, prisoner in Germany, writes to Mr & Mrs Tatem, Conservative Club. He is quite well & sends his regards to both of them & all the members of the Club; but Officer Tatum is tickling the Turks in Suez; Aberdare Leader 2 Sep 1916 source : [Herbert Soper, Private, Somerset Light Infantry, nr6960 on WW1 medal list]
: 1916 H Soper & 22 other Germany PoWs sent parcels of goodies this week 25 Nov 1916
: 1918 H Soper amongst those following hearse of Rees Lewis of Rose Row, died age 50; bur.Aberdare Cemetery; Aberdare Leader 30 Nov 1918 cymru1914.org
: 1918 Bert Soper just returned from Germany, has not been badlv treated at all, so he says. Nevertheless, he has lost about 2 stones; 'Men from the Mount'; 'Aberdare Leader' 21 Dec 1918 scan
: 1918 Herbert Soper Pvt with 18 repatriated prisoners awarded �2 per week for 5-10 weeks, from the Evening Express Fund. Aberdare Leader 21 Dec 1918
: 1919 Pte Soper, Somerset Light Infantry, was with the "old contemptibles" in the retreat from Mons, & fell into the hands of the Germans. A home-coming reception for soldier. Soper on the platform at the Public Hall, Pencoed, was prisoner for over four years; 'Glamorgan Gazette' 10 Jan 1919 scan
: 1919 Pvte Soper POW for over 4 years, on the platform at reception of homecoming of 7 soldiers at Public Hall, Pencoed; He was with 'the old contemptables' in the retreat from Mons when he fell into the hands of the Germans, in that time of unsurpassable heroism & anquish; medal & cheque to each soldier [songs sung & speeches made] 5 Jan 1919, from Glamorgan Gazette 10 Jan scan
: 1919 H Soper Pvte 8 Victoria St who was taken prisoner on 24 Aug 1914; with 12 other soldiers, at meeting of Miskin Welcome Home Fund where songs sung; Aberdare Leader 25 Jan 1919 cymru1914.org
: Henry A B Soper Bugr. [?bugler, if so, young?] nr.Ply.18760 [Royal Marines, Plymouth Division], 1914 ST C; RM Gosport'; Awarded Victory Medal, British War Medal; Medals Issued; Victory Medal, Europe, British War Medal; disposed of to King George V [battleship, crew 782]; scan : [?a Henry Alfred B Soper b.Apr>Jun 1902, Fareham, Hants to Harry & Annie Mahare Evans m.1893]
: ?a Henry A B Soper (c1902-1928) d.Jul>Sep, age 26, Totnes, Dev]
: H J Soper L.Cpr 122853 921 Rations (attached) "K" Comp/Sqdn: ceased to be attached; Daily Orders entry at ASC Remount Depot, Swaythling [nr.Southampton, Hants]; 27 Apr 1918
: Next of kin Mrs J? Soper Mrs Tidy, mother Bromley Common, SE Lon; Jan 1915 Enlisted Exeter; Mar 1915 to France; Apr 1915 General Service Wound to shoulder & to Eng; to Norfolk Reg; Dec 1915-Nov 1919 India; WW1 record
Private J Soper of Plymouth, a soldier in India Christmas 1917 [probably part of Prince of Wales's Battalion, sail Plymouth to India 1914, : devonheritage.org : [see photo right]
: J Soper Private, London Regiment, nr272609 : refWO 372/23; WW1 Service Medals
: ?a James Soper Private 373779 & Acting Corporal 5265, London Regiment; WW1 Service Medals
: James G Soper, Corporal 2/3 Wessex Field Ambulance A list of Bitterne* men who served in the 1914-18 war : source (*an east S'tn suburb)
: [a James George Soper b.1874 Southampton : army records]
: ['11cen; James George, 34, parish fireman at Southampton b.Bedford & a James George Soper of Bitterne Park in Southampton Directory 1912]
337666 406680 Army Service Corps, Motor Transport; b.[1885], 3 Southplace, South St, Hammersmith; Dec 1917 Called up; age 32 1m;
5ft 6in; Chest 36>38�in; C of E; a motor driver; 21 Raynham St; Dispersal Jan 1919 : WW1 record
: 1888 John Lightfoot Soper b.4 Apr 1888 [b.Apr>Jun], Newton Abbott, Dev; ?a Samuel Robert H Soper m.Annie Sarah Lightfoot or Lucy Florence F Whybrew Jul>Sep 1886, Newton Abbott, Dev
: John Lightfoot Soper, Corporal, Royal Engineers, nr510357 : refWO 372/23; WW1 Medal List
: John Lightfoot Soper m.Emily Hetta Handcock Apr>Jun 1909 Exeter, Dev
- Sidney Herbert J Soper b.Apr>Jun 1910, Newton Abbott; m.Mabel L Potter Apr>Jun 1937, Barnstaple, Dev; In PO 1940 skilled workmen,
: '91cen not vis
: '01cen John Soper 12 at school; in 3 rooms at 6 (Under) Queens St, Tormoham, Torquay [Newton Abbot RD]; with grandmother Sophia Lightfoot widow 58 & son Fredrick Lightfoot 26unm coal lumper both all b.Torquay, Dev; (2nd household in 4 rooms above at address) scan
: 1909 John Lightfoot Soper m.Emily Hetta Handcock Apr>Jun 1909, Exeter, Dev
: '11cen John Lightfoot Soper 22 wireman for National Telephone Co in 3 rooms at 'under 49 Ellacombe Church Road', Newton Abbot; b.NA; Emily Hetta 25 {m.1y 10m, 1 birth}; b.Chittlehamptob, N., Dev; Sidney Herbert John 10m; b.Torquay, Dev scan
: 1914 Sidney Herbert John Soper b.11 May 1910 admitted 20 Apr 1914 to Newtown First School, Exeter from Torquay; father John of 84 Clifton St; left 9 Jul 1915 left city; readmitted 30 Aug 18? scan
: '39cen John L 51 telecommunication foreman, skilled workman, post office egnrs dept (b.4 Apr 1888) at 3 Albion Terrace, Exmouth, Dev; Emily H 54 unpaid dom duties (b.9 Mar 1885); Percy W 11 at school (b.2 Jan 1928); also Pauline L V Chater b.7 Mar 1892 unpaid dom duties, widow; Anne P King (Lucas) b.8 Aug 1936 under school age, unm (& 2nd family of 2 at address) scan
: ['11cen John Rowland Watson Soper, 49 at Brentford, Msx] : [parents John window blind maker b.Stonehouse, Dev & Caroline, see '61cen] :
: [JRW Soper b.1861 St Pancras; m.1904, Marylebone; d.Oct>Dec 1927 age 65, Chelsea, Lon]
: Leonard Soper, Richard & William Soper served (& survived) WW1 former pupils of Kingsbridge Council School who served in the 1914-8. First World War : devonheritage.org
: see parents Samuel Henry Soper draper & Katherine Polak who m.1872
: Lewis Soper, Sergeant Royal Army Service Corps; 1919 record for sale forces-war-records.co.uk
Mr Soper photographed by Capt Weaver who was in the Army Medical Corp in Mesopotamia [Iraq area] 1915-19 source : [yacht called 'Mavourneen' RSYC] : [speculate a Red Cross boat shipped out from Royal Solent Yacht Club?) Cpt Charles Henry Weaver of Herts, involved in ambulance boats Mesopotamia 1915-19 (perhaps Soper in other photos?)]
: [?perhaps likely Roland Soper, a Southampton yacht designer, transferred, to be engineer, Royal Indian Marine for important work in Mesopotamia . He was also in Red Cross; biog] : ['Mavourneen'="my beloved" in gaelic; not just Irish speakers, in parlance as 4 silent movies & ballad "Kathleen Mavourneen" 1906-19 wiki] : [but perhaps RSYC a local club? (not Royal Singapore Yacht Club founded 1922 or Royal Selangor Yacht Club Malaysia, f.1969)] : [a Capt Edward Joseph Soper (Ordnance Corps), in Egypt 1915-9? (& after WW2 in Malaysia) see : But if Soper was an officer in RAMC - then perhaps Cpt Arthur W Soper, Lieut Bertram Soper, Lieut George B S Soper or Capt W S Soper (or Capt Hugh Ross Souper)?] : ['Mavourneen', a British recreational schooner built 1871, 1902 model shows it held 3 ships-boats; (the model maker was 'active in Malta') image; 166 ton built by Camper & Nicholson, Gosport for W J Rideout source; a 160 ton schooner 'Mavourneen', purchased by Royal Navy 9 Jul 1900, sold Jul 1912 source]
: [see parents Robert Henry m.Jane Parris 1885, Bradfield, Berks]
N B Souper ; on War Memorial at Hilton, Huntingdonshire - WW1 source [Francis Abraham Souper vicar of Hinton 1898] : National Archives
N B Souper, 2nd Lieut : 1914-1916 Armed forces service records ref WO 339/4031 source
Noel B Souper (c1878-1916) age 15, sailed from Liverpool to Halifax, Canada, 1893 : from findmypast.com [& to Montreal 1902] : [son of Rev Francis & Fanny Souper, in 1881 census age 3 in Eastbourne, Sx]
Owen Norman Soper private 5th Buffs, serving men, Ashford Town. List of men published 1915, Kentish Express Newspaper 1915
: [birth registered Oct>Dec 1896 West Ashford, Kent; parents James Henry O Soper m.Maria Harriet Jenner 1895]
: '01cen, Owen 4 b.Ashford with parents James 34 foreman railway coach builders at 134 Beaver Rd, Ashford, Kt; b.Chippenham, Wilts; Maria 26 b.Ashford; scan
: '11cen age 14 at West Ashford, Kent with James Henry Owen Soper, 44, Maria Harriet Soper, 36 & Edward Cyril Soper, 7 : [brother Edward killed 1942, WW2 bombing raid]
: 1914 Capt.O N Soper, Corps Regiment; Indian Army Reserve of Officers; Medal card; National Archives; Ref,WO 372/28/3932 record batch: 1914-25
: 1918 Owen Norman Soper to be 2nd Lieut, Indian Army reserve 29 Mar 1918; Gazette of India p.483
: 1919 Owen Norman Soper to be 2nd Lieut, Infantry Branch1919
: 1919 presume Lieut O N Soper Punjab Reg 1919
: 1922 permitted to retain rank of Lieutenant [retired?] 1 May 1922
: 1931 Owen 35 engineer, sailed 1st class on "Maloja" (P & O Line) from Bombay, India to London; arriving 22 Oct 1931; Last permanant address India; Planned future residence British Empire; address 136 Bonver Rd, Ashford, Kent (ship from Brisbane, Australia) scan; UK Incoming Register
: 1932 Owen Norman Soper m.Lydia A M Howland Apr>Jun 1932 W. Ashford
: '39cen Lydia A M 40m unpaid dom duties (b.27 Aug 1899) at 16 Godinton Rd, Ashford, Kt; with [parents?] Philip & Elizabeth Howland b.5 Dec 1876 & b.6 Aug 1874 restaurant proprietors scan
: 1949 Owen Norman Soper age 49, sailed from Newcastle to Bombay, India, 1946 : from findmypast
Percival Handcock Soper b.Oct>Dec 1887 to Thomas H Soper & Mary Ann Handcock who m.1884: Percival H Soper m.Hilda M Abbott Jul>Sep 1922 both Launceston
: Robert Henry Soper, Acting Lance Serjeant, Royal Sussex Regiment, nr16783 : refWO 372/18; WW1 Service Medals : [m.Mildred Rowland Jul>Sep 1918 Horsham]
V Soper Bradfield & Inns of Court, Dorset Regiment [Vivian Soper, Lieut, Dorset Reg, war medal : family biog] : snippets from The Officer Training Corps & the Great War pub.1915 Google Books snippet
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: 1916 Reginald Soper 7th Hussars in 2nd contingent of Barry recruits. Barry gives 10,000 to the colours Barry Dock News 2 Jun 1916 scanhttp://newspapers.library.wales/view/4168954/4168959/28/soper">scan
: 1916 Reginald Soper 13th Hussars was serving in Mesopotamia in the fighting against the Turks. A fellow soldier described the conditions Sep 1916 thus: 'In the blazing heat of the tropical sun we started, each man leading two horses, besides two haversack, bandolier containing ninety rounds of ball ammunition, a water bottle, rifle & bayonet. On & on we trekked, men falling out by the way with heatstroke, many stark mad & men told off to hold the poor devils down. Reaching camp we were glad to get into tents & lie down & drink lots of iced water. Many others went sick the next few days, some of them dying.' Private Reg Soper was one of these & buried in Basra Cemetery in modern Iraq, aged just 21. The lost memorial of Glanstone Road School, Barry, source
: 1916 Pvt Reginald Soper, nr18825, 13th Hussars died of wounds at Basra, Iraq 27 Jul 1916. b.abt.1895, lived 47 Merthyr St, Barry Dock, Glamorgan [Reginald Evan Soper b.1895 Cardiff to George Wilmot Soper & Decima Robins 1889]
: ?R G Soaper on a panel at Barry Memorial Hall, Glamorgan
: ?if 'R G S' then not Reginald Evan Soper b.Apr>Jun 1895, Cardiff, Glam
: Rowland Soper; song. 'The borderers' S.Bucks Standard 18 Dec 1896 : [not linked] : [only Rowland in bmd is Rowland Henry Soper b.Jul>Sep 1889; Rowland H Soper (c1889-1916) d.Jul>Sep 1916, both Totnes, Dev, age 27]
: [b.1888 Wirral : m.1915 Birkenhead (to Hannah Lemon) : d.1949, age 60, Wandsworth]
: [ '11cen, Richard Frederick 54 commercial clerk (soap manufacturer) in 7 rooms at 40 Allcot Ave, Bekinton Rd, Tranmere Cheshire [Birkenhead RD] b.Clevedon, S.set, Florence Marie 45 music master, professional musician {m.25y 3 births, all alive}, both b.Birkenhead, Richard Frederick William 22unm chemist analytical (soap mfr), Dorothy Fulton 19 typist (soap mfr) & Ronald Chatterton 14 at school, all b.Rock Ferry, Cheshire; scan]
Robert Victor Soper Pte.3211 & 241476 Hants Regiment; Medal Card; British War Medal IND.GS.AFGN.NWFF-1919 Roll (16680-85); [Indian General Service Medal with a clasp for the 1919 North West Frontier operation, Afghanistan : [see 3rd Anglo-Afghan War 6 May-8 Aug 1919, after WW1 new Afgan ruler invaded India; Britain pushed them back & invaded N.Khyber, stalemate & armistice followed wiki] : [Robert Victor Soper b.1896 Southampton m.1923]
: Robert V Soper Pte.241476, joined D Company 1/5th Hampshire Reg when they were at Fyzabad, Easter 1916 & travelled 12,000 miles by train, 1,500 by sea & 300 by road as he journeyed from arrival in Mumbai (Bombay), Marasthtra via Fyzabad (Faizabad), Uttar Pradesh-Raniket, Uttarakhand-Dwarkaganj, Uttar Prades-Agra, Uttar Pradesh-Nainital (Naini Tal), Uttarakhand-Kolkata (Calcutta), Paschim Bangal (West Bengal)-Fatehpur Sikri, Uttar Pradesh-Pyin U Lwin (Maymyo), Mandalay-Yangon (Rangoon), Yangon (Rangoon)-Ambala (Umballa), Jaryana-Delhi, National Capital Territory-Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Dagshai, Himachal Pradesh-Kanpur (Cawnpore), Uttar Pradesh & Devlali (Deolai), Maharashtra before leaving again from Mumbai (Bombay) source"
: Roland George Cooper Soper b.7 Oct 1884 Southampton to Joseph Manston Soper, sail boat designer m.Georgina Cooper 1881
: [see parents Joseph Manston Soper, boat designer & Georgina Cooper m.1881]
: Assume worked with father from "JMS & Son"
: '11cen Roland George 27unm chief draughtsman, ship building department in 7 rooms at 45 Obelisk Rd, Woolston, Southampton, Hants; b.Southampton scan
: [?Likely to be the unknown officer photographed by a sail boat in Mesopotamia WW1?]
: [Roland G E Soper, British Red Cross Society & Order of Saint John of Jerusalem]
: WW1 Roland George Cooper Soper British Red Cross Register of Overseas Volunteers scan
: 1915 Lance-Corporal Ronald Garland Soper, from the Inns of Court Officers Training Corps, to be 2nd Lieut & seconded for duty with a Provisional Battalion. The Northumberland Fusiliers 17 Sept 1915 (London Gazette14 Sep)
: 1916 Roland George Cooper Soper Le Casa, Thornbury Ave, Southampton; Red Cross service, 9 May 1916-9 Oct 1917; very good character; previous engagement Supdt.Engineer of construction & re-erection of [river] hospital ship 'Nabha'; pay �20pm; Commission Messopotania & India Motor Launch; cert.nr.1990 redcross.org; scan & scan b : ['Nahba' built Thornycroft & Co & sent in sections to Bombay & re-erected; Arrived Basrah May 1917 & in 2 months, travelled 2000m between Basrah & Bagdad evacuating sick source]
: 1917 ?a R G Soper 2 May 1917, Folkstone : Register of Seamen, Discharge Papers R174030, National Archives ref BT 372/145/51
: 1919 Roland George Cooper Soper of Le Casa, Thornbury Ave; Red Cross, Motor Ambulance cert.nr.8990 7 Oct 1919; scan & scan b
: 1920 Roland G C Soper m.Elvie Mary Attwater Jul>Sep 1920, Southampton
: 1920 Roland George Cooper Soper & Elvie Soper out in 1920 from England to India; ancestry.com
: 1923 Roland George 39 engineer & wife Elvie Mary 32 of 100 Hill Ln, Southampton; sailed Calcutta to Plymouth, 1st class on "Malena" from Bombay, India. arriving 25 Dec 1923 London scan
: 1925 & 1935 directories ; A Shopkeeper by 1935, 39, 40 shopkeeper at 26 Litchfield Rd, Bitterne Pk, S'ton
: '39cen Roland G C 54m shop proprietor (b.7 Oct 1884) at 26 Litchfield Rd, Southampton; Elvie M 47m wife & business partner (b.21 Nov 1891); [sister] Gertrude G M 57unm unpaid dom duties (b.22 Apr 1882) scan
: 1946 Father's executor 1938 (�1,000 estate); Commercial Directory Plimsoll.org; at 76 Radway Rd, Shirley (& without 'shopkeeper') 1946, 48, 54 & 60 Kelly's Directories
: 1953 ?Roland Soper 68 sailed 3 Mar 1953 New York to Southampton
: 1966 Roland George Cooper Soper (1884-1966) ancestry.com have pay-walled records, so assume a tree there
: Samuel R Soper, Acting Serjeant, Devonshire Regiment, nr2291 WW1 service Record
Thomas Soper (1889-) 6th (Service) Bn, Loyal North Lancashire Reg; attested 26 Aug 1914 Bolton; age 25y 180d; 5ft 4 3/8in; 121lbs, chest 36-38 1/2in; eyes 6/36 sopeline? vision; discharge of recruit as not likely to become an efficient soldier; Tidworth 22 Oct 1914
: [family? '11cen William 66 labourer gas works in 6 rooms at 2 Barley Cottages, Haven Road St Thomas, Dev b.Tedburn, St Mary; Mary Ann 65 {m.38, 7 births, 6 alive} b.Shobrooke, Dev; Thomas 29unm gen labourer; Fred 23unm iron worker (& gas worker) both b.St , Dev & sister Harriet Stevens 68 widow b.Sandford, Dev scan]
: Pte V E Soper, C of Lon Yeo; 2 WW1 medals sold on ebay (#230307889605) Jan'09
: [Victor Edward Soper b.Jul>Sep 1887 Crediton, Dev] : ['11cen connection? a Victor Soper, boarder 23 drapers clerk at London City, b.Dev ('91cen 4 at St Petrock, Dev; b.Shobrooke, Dev with Edward 52 butcher & Alice 40; '01cen draper's assistant Littleham, Dev, 13 b.Exmouth, Dev)]
V Soper, Lt Dorset Regiment, TF, from 13-20 Nov 1917 to be acting Captains whilst Comanding a Trench Mortar Battalion: 7 Nov (26 Apr 1918) (London Gazette 26 Apr)
V Soper Lt, Dorset Regiment TF to be granted temp commissions as 2nd Lt. (Observer Officer) & Hon. Lt. 4 July 1918 (London Gazette 29 Nov)
V Soper Lt. 4th Bn, Dorset Regiment is seconded for service with the RAF. 4 Jul 1918 (London Gazette 17 Jan)
V Soper 2nd Lt (Hon Lt ) (Dorset Regiment) 4 Jun 1919 Transferred to Unemployed List (London Gazette 24 Jun)
V Soper Lt. 4th Bn, Dorset Regiment, resigns his commission, 8 Apr 1921 & retains the rank of Lt (London Gazette 5 Apr) : [Vivian Soper lieut service medal] : ['11cen Vivian 18 at Lancs a steam engine apprentice & 14 at S.set]
: 1916 W E Soper, 2nd Lt. Spec. Res. R., & to be transferred to the General List (London Gazette 7 Jul 1916) : [but perhaps the Walter Eddy Soper, a Canadian aviator & 2nd Lt RFC WW1]
: 1918 W E Soper, Ministry of Munitions 1918, an ex office clerk in London Hospital p.31 source
Is this same man bellow?.....
: 1929 Dr W E Soper & Prof J R Partington [listed 1st]; 'Definition of the various Heats of Solution & Dilution', A part of W E Soper's Ph.D thesis, University of London; pub Journal of Science Feb 1929
: 1940s Dr Soper collaborated in plastic explosive work under remote control conditions. Very tricky business, exploring unknown territory; book on civilian bomb disposal WW2; source
: 1951 Dr W E Soper, armament Research establishment, Fort Halstead, Kent; published a review on p,217 of research of hollow-charge & squashed-head warheads against armour source: [unclassified 1980 - ??perhaps from 1951?]
: 1955? W E Soper British Joint Services Mission, Foreign Relations Section, 1800 K St, Washington; on distribution list for report on steel shield & shaped jets warheads source & a similar doc 1954 source
: 1960s Dr Soper had been a distinguished explosive scientist in WW2 as anyone in our business a trifle eccentric. Dr Soper occupied offices in the explosive area. Between 12 & 2 Soper sat in his office with the Times draped over his distinguished features. Anyone, inc senior management, attempting to interrupt his doze was picked up by his huge experimental worker & deposited outside. Dr Soper designed a marvellous firing chamber at The Arsenal, who's roof vented blasts. [date c.1960s?] A structure called Soper�s Cell at the old Woolwich Arsenal source p.16
: 1961 coincidence? a W G Soper wrote report on Explosive-induced Pressures in Iron, 1961, Viginia, USA source
: 1914 Quartermaster Soper has been transferred from the lst Battalion to the 2nd & has already taken to his duties at the Down Schools like the proverbial duck to water; 'Bexhill-on-Sea Observer' 5 Dec 1914
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W H Soper 3 Apr 1918 on list of temp Qrmrs & Capts who resign their commissions on transfer to RAF (London Gazette 24 Jan)
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W H Soper (Special list). 3 Apr 1918. On list of Capts & Qr.Mrs. granted temp, commissions as Lts., with seniority from 1st Apr & to be Hon Capts. (London Gazette 14 Feb)
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W H Soper, Lt. (Hon Capt) transferred to the unemployed list 10 Dec 1919 (London Gazette 17 Feb 1920) : [William Henry Soper temp Quartermaster 1914] :
[William Henry Soper (1865-?) Quartermaster Sergeant, Kings Own Scottish Borderers biog]
: W Soper labourer, attested 11 Nov 1915 Putney, 12th Batn, Suffolk Reg, age 19y 0m, b.1896 Wandsworth 5ft 0.25in, 112lbs, 33.75-36�in; remarks 45 Point Pleasant, Wandsworth; Surrey Recruitment Registers 2496/5 scan : [so 16 not 19]
: [?a Walter William Soper b.Jul>Sep 1900 Wandsworth; assume parents Walter m.Martha Matilda Filber 1890 Wandsworth]
: ['11cen Walter 48 gen lab at 45 Point Pleasant, Wandsworth b.Hants; Martha 46 {m/21y} b.Lame, Bucks; Albert 20 gen lab; Joseph 17 gen lab; Rose 15 gen servant; William 11; Daisy 3 all b.Wandsworth]
: [William John Soper m.Elizabeth abt.1894]
: Enlisted 17 Oct 1916 age 24y 16d
: joined Battalion, Queen's Regiment nr23558
: embarked Bombay? 4 May 1917 on 'Ellingar' disembarked Baval? 11 May
: Hospital 26 May 1917 Vasiningoh? 17 Aug
: increase in pay to class 1 15 Aug 1918 : At Sittingbourne 18 Oct 1916
: Embarked to join Salonika Force, Basrah 9 Dec 1918
: transferred from Queens & Royal West Sussex? 19 Apr 1919 to Royal Berks Regt [Depot]
: Malaria at Salonika Jul 1919 : Malaria, disablement, 'less than 20%' [perhaps given an allowance?]
: Invalided to Uk on 'Glengarren? Castle' 19 Sep-8 Oct 1919
: transferred to the reserve 12 Jan 1920 [perhaps wounded in India 1916? -page 5]
William G Soper, Pvt..., Royal Berkshire Regiment, nr54610 : refWO 372/18 : WW1 Service Medal & previously; William G Soper, Private..., The Queen's Regiment, nr243558
: W T Soper WW1, Medal card Indian Army (T.C.) Lieutenant.
: W T Soper Lieutenant permitted to retain the rank of Lieutenant, (London Gazette 25 Nov 1921)
: William James Soper (1897-1940) 1s per day from 3 Sep 1917 on transfer to Royal Engineers as driver; an ancestry.com record
Edward Sopper, Private..., Gordon Highlanders, nr15243
M J Soper, Private, Seaforth Highlanders, nr5397
Rupert S C Soper, Private, Coldstream Guards, nr10852 : ['11cen Rubert Samuel Charles Soper 19 at parent's Newton Abbot farm; b.Jul>Sep 1891, Newton Abbott, Dev]
after WW1
: ?a sapper H N Soper in reserve in Singapore team at 1-2 Jul 1910 Empire Shooting Match, at Bisley, England, 8 man teams & 2 reserves for GB, Can, Aust, India & Singapore; Came last; only 8 man teams in photos
R H Soper, Temp. Lt. R. Sussex Regiment relinquishes his commission on completion of service, 17 Mar 1920 retains rank of Lt. (London Gazette 20 Apr) : [a Robert Henry Soper born Jan>Mar 1894 & Robert H Soper m.Mildred Rowland Jul>Sep 1918 both Horsham district bmd] : [a Robert Henry Soper, Acting Lance Serjeant..., Royal Sussex Regiment, nr16783, service medal]
R H Soper (142267), Lt. Royal Sussex Regiment to be Lt. Royal Army Ordnance Corp 27 Jan 1941, retaining his present seniority. (London Gazette 2 May)
: 1920 Fredric Pitt Soper attested 30 Aug 1920, age 17y 4m; clerk; b.21 Apr 1903 Shepherds Bush, Msx; father Fredk Maston, 91 High St, Barnes, Herts; discharge 19 Aug 28 Finsbury; para 193(3) FA Regs; Gr; Royal Artillery attestations lost link
: 1920 Federick Pitt Soper (1903-) Gunner nr.1396119; Attested, T[erritorials?] at Finsbury 30 Aug 1920, age 17y 4m; b.21 Apr 1903 Sheperds Bush, M.sx; father Fredk. Walter Soper of 91 High St, Barnes, Herts; Transferred 19 Feb 1928 Finsbury para193(3) TA Regs; Serial nr.4126 scan
E J Soper, Major, late Royal Army Ordnance Corps, to be Major 1 Jul 1921, with seniority from 7 Jul 1919 (London Gazette 3 Nov)
: 1921 Frederick William Soper nr.7869337 Sergt Tank Corps P C of Dorset, Southern Division. Absent Voters List 1921 Beechcroft, Park Rd; 32 Autumn scan : [??too old?; a Frederick William Soper Royal Defence Corp 1914, age 50]
: 1920 Robert Soper-Dyer nr.12722 Rifleman on '3rd Bn, KRRC'; Home address, Waltham Rd, Overton, Basingstoke; on Absent Voters List 1920 scan & as Cpl 1920 scan & 1921 List, Rifleman nr.6838367; 3rd Bn, KRRC scan
F G Soper Lt. to be Capt. 20 Jul 1927. Officers Training Corps, Bangor University College Contgt., Sen. Div (London Gazette 21 Feb 1928)
F G Soper Lt. (late RGA, SR), to be Lt. with precedence from 10 Aug 1922, for service with Bangor University College
Contgt., Sen. Div., OTC 3 Jun 1924 (London Gazette 2 Sep) : [see Frederick George Soper (1898-1980) Wales]
F G Soper, Capt Officer Training Corps, Bangor Univ. Coll. Contgt., Sen. Div To be Bt. Major : (London Gazette 2 Jan 1934)
F G Soper Bt. Captain & Major Bangor Univ. Coll. Gontgt., Sen. Div, Officer Training Corps, resigns his commission & retains his rank, with permission to wear the prescribed uniform. 31 Mar 1935 (London Gazette 9 Apr)
- Leonard Alfred Soper b.Jul>Sep 1908, Wandsworth, Lon (bmd); '11cen assume Leonard age 2, youngest son of Albert 36 & Louise 35 all b.Battersea; parents m.1900]
1932 Ronald Frederick Soper nr.7882828, attested regular army; to RAPC [Royal Army Pay Corps] 9 Aug 1932; Docs to W.Office 27 Feb 1933 scan
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1913 Ronald Frederick Soper b.9 Nov 1913 Oregon tree, parents m.7 Jun 1908 Baker Co
1920cen 'Frederick' at Baker, Oregon; with parents John Soper 36 (b.Can), lineman & Orpha 29 (b.OR) [nee Wasldo]
1930cen 'Fred' 17 grocery clerk at Spokane, Washington with step-father Tom Tracey 52 (Can) & Orpha 39
1936 Ronald F Soper m.Vera Wicks Oct>Dec 1936, Richmond, Yorks, N,Riding (bmd)
: '39cen Vera 23m unpaid dom duties (b.10 Mar 1916) at 22 Stanley Grove, Richmond, Yorks (N.Riding); with [parents?] Albert E Wicks b.11 Nov 1883 grade IV clerk ROAC depot; Eva Wicks b.14 Apr 1895 udd, both m; Vera line 3 {crossed out}, lines 4 , 5 & 7 temp withheld & Percy C Brookman b.7 Oct 1913 tutor, educational assoc. (adult), unm scan; Vera also listed as udd with Ida Stratton udd b.8 Nov 1908 at 10 Beechfield Rd, Richmond; but most lines temp withheld scan
1944 Ronald Frederick Soper, nr7882828, Warrant Officer Class I, Staff Sergeant, Major Royal Army Pay Corps. To be Additional Members of the Military Division of Order of the British Empire : (London Gazette 29 Dec 1944)
1945 Ronald Frederick Soper (356147). 7882828 Cadet from Officer Training Unit (Royal Army Pay Corps) to be 2nd Lt, 12 Sep 1945 : (London Gazette 23 Oct)
1946 R F Soper, War Subs. Lt. MBE (3561147) from Emergency Commission with the rank of Lt (London Gazette 3 Dec 1946)
1947 R F Soper, Lt, & Paymr MBE (356147) [mention] (London Gazette 4 Mar 1847)
1951 R F Soper, Lt & Paymaster to be Captain & Paymaster : Royal Army Pay Corps (356147) (London Gazette 12 Oct 1951)
1951 ?R F Soper Major, Princess Charlotte of Wales (Royal Berkshire Reg) 1951 record for sale forces-war-records.co.uk
1971 Vera Soper b.Richmond, N.Yorks. Abroad for much of her life with late husband, army major Ron Soper MBE "My husband was in army so I traveled a lot. a hairdresser & beautician lived in York before moving to Turkey in 1948 for 4�y, Nigeria in 1950's, then Germany & Greece" After army, moved to Filey mid 60s with children Derek, Graham & Christine. Ron secretary of Scarborough Lifeboat from 1971; 'Scarborough Evening News' article
2003 Maj R F Soper, MBE Scarborough, N Yorks d.31 Jul 2003, Royal Army Pay Corps source, age 89
: 1935 John Bertram Sopper, 2nd Lt. from General List, TA, to Royal Regiment of Artillery, 31 Aug 1935 (seniority 1 Feb 1934) (Lon Gazette 30 Aug 1935)
: 1937 J B Sopper 2nd Lt to be Lt Royal Regiment of Artillery 1 Feb 1937 Gazette 2 Feb)
: 1941 Capt J B Sopper left India with the regiment, for Malaysia. He took over 21st Battery (4 x 3.7" howitzers) at Kota Bharu [Malaysia, on Tai border] Jun 1941; as acting major; supporting 8 Inf Brig, guarding the airfield. from "Indian Mountain Artillery" source (a Lt-Col G L Sopper provided info to book)
: 1941 John Bertram Sopper Major, 21st Mountain Battery, Indian Artillery; Malaya Command; Indian 9th Infantry Div, as at 7 Dec 1941 source
: 1942 J B Sopper (62930) Lt to be Capt 1 Feb 1942 (Gazette 30 Jan)
: 1957 J B Sopper, B.A. Maj (62903), from R.A., to be Lt.Col. on the Emp. List (1), 1 Jan 1957 Gazette 25 Feb
: 1960 J B Sopper, BA (62903) Emp. List 1 (late R.A.), is Supernumerary to Establishment, 1 Jan 1960 Gazette 29 Dec
: 1940 Arthur Gordon Soper nr.1468271; attested Royal Artillery 1940; 128/36; Transferred to Field 10 Aug 1944; 8 Dec 1945 W (T) scan
WW2 1939-45
John Soper army nr.2655832 d.1944
Albert Edward Soper army nr.14323908 d.1944
C K Soper Corporal, Household Cavalry 305457 : Camp nr; 48 : PoW nr; 85324 : Camp type; Stalag at Muhlberg (Elbe) : Household Cavalry Record Office, Combermere Barracks, Windsor : [no CK in '11cen]
C T Soper Lance Corporal, Hampshire Reg 5501864 : Camp nr; 11B : PoW nr; 139102 : Camp type; Fallingbostel : Infantry & Army Physical Training Corps RO, Stanwell Rd School, Ashford : [no CT in '11cen]
F J Soper, Sapper, Royal Engineers, [not in this list but reported POW Times 27 Mar 1944] : imprisoned in 3 camps 1944-5 : Heito (S Taiwan), Kinkaseki Camp on NE coast of Taiwan, [apparently then moved inland perhaps in May/June 1945 to] Kukutsu camp [Atom bombs ended war in Aug] source
J K Soper Rifleman. Rifle Brigade 6918003; Camp nr.344; POW nr.32687; Camp type; Stalag at Lamsdorf : Rifle Corps RO, Winchester : [reported POW 11 Apr 1942 Times] : J K Soper 15 page memoir; his training & service, 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade; capture by Germans in Libya, Jan 1942, experiences of Italian & German captivity, principally in POW camps PG 65 (Gravina) & Stalag VIIIB (Lamsdorf); Evacuation march westwards early 1945 & meeting-up with US forces nr.Chemnitz; 2 maps show his movements in N.Africa & Poland/Germany; source Imperial War Museaum source [only 2 JKS in bmd; John K b.1915 Totnes or b.1916 Hendon, Lon]
J W Soper Driver, Royal Army Service Corps 204988 : Camp nr; 4F : Prisoner of War Nr; 258773 : Camp type; Stalag at Hartmansdorf Chemnitz : RASC RO, Ore Place, Hastings, Sussex : [reported POW 23 Nov 1942 Times]
R J W Soper Gunner, Royal Artillery 2051538 : Camp nr; 18A : PoW nr; 3456 : Camp type; Stalag at Wolfsberg (Karnten) : RA (Coast & Searchlight), Corps of Military Police & Military Provost Staff Corps RO, Savoy Hotel, Bournemouth : [at Camp 18a 1941?]
W H Soper Gunner, Royal Artillery 838700 : Camp nr; 18A : PoW nr; 5878 : Camp type; RA (Heavy Anti-Aircraft) RO, St. Maries Hall, Dunchurch Rd, Rugby : [reported POW 8 Nov 1941 Times] : [MOC 11066/GW*] : [*Man of Confidence, elected to comunicate for a POW work camp nr 11066/GW] : [prisoners in Stalag 18A, POW camp, Wolfsberg, Austria, opened for prisoners from Greece/Crete 1941 : As Russian front approached fit prisoners marched 212 miles in 11 days through snow to Markt Pongau prison camp, where guards offered prisoners their rifles 10 May 1945]
W A Soper Pvt, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Reg 6345564 : Camp nr.344; PoW nr.1154; Camp type; Stalag at Lamsdorf; Infantry & Army Physical Training Corps RO, Stanwell Rd School, Ashford, M.sex
: R J Soper (M.Eng B.Eng AM Inst CE) appointed 2nd Lt Corps of Royal Engineers 29 Feb 1940. From The Times 25 Apr
: R J Soper (119941). Major (temp) Corps of Royal Engineers. Mentioned in recognition of gallant & distinguished service in N W Europe (London Gazette 6 Nov 1945 )
J F Soper Lieut Royal Army Pay Corp 1946 & Capt, Education & Training 1951; record for sale forces-war-records.co.uk
J F Soper Captain Royal Berkshire Reg, 1946; record for sale forces-war-records.co.uk
John Francis Soper 2nd Lt. (War Subs. Capt) R. Berks Regiment (149862) from Emergency Commission to be Lt. 11 Jan 1947, with seniority 3 Mar 1941. (London Gazette 7 Jan)
: J F Soper (149862), (War Subs Capt) 11 Jan 1947, with seniority, 17 Mar 1946 (Substituted for the notifn in Gazette (Supplement) 11 Feb 1947) (London Gazette 13 Apr)
J F Soaper (149862) Capt. (War Subs. Maj.) R. Berks. R. to be Major 17 Mar 1951 (London Gazette 13 Mar)
: Edwin Charles Elford Soper (407124) 22263676 Dvr. Royal Army Service Corps to be 2nd Lt., 26 Sep 1949 (London Gazette 25 Nov)
: Edwin Charles Elford Soper 1949; record for sale forces-war-records.co.uk
: E C E Soper (407124) 2nd Lt. to be Lt 26 Sep 1949. Royal Army Service Corps (London Gazette 6 Jan)
R Soper-Dyer (121483) Lt. to be Lt (Qr.Mr) North'n. Regiment 23 Apr 1941 (London Gazette 27 May)
R Soper-Dyer (121483), Lt. (Qr.Mr) from North'n Regiment, Royal Army Ordnance Corps to be Lt. (OEO 3rd Cl) 11 May 1942, retaining his present seniority. (London Gazette 21 Jul)
R Soper-Dyer (121483) War Subs Capt (OEO 2nd Class) relinquishes his commission on account of disability, 13 Jul 1945 & is granted the honorary rank of Captain (OEO 2nd Class). (London Gazette 10 Jul) : [a Lt Leslie Soper-Dyer 1944]
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: L J Soper 5671562 Spr. Corps of Royal Engineers. Killed in action, Mentioned in recognition of gallant & distinguished services in the field. War Office report 28 Oct 1942. (London Gazette 27 Oct)
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: L J Soper, Saper, Royal Engineers, reported killed : From The Times 10 Jun 1942 : [Leonard James of Lympstone, Dev War Death, Malta age 22]
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Pvt L Soper 'D' Company The 1st (Loyal City of Exeter) Battalion Devon Home Guard Exetermemories.co.uk
: R R Soper (286519) relinquish Commission in the TARO [Territorial Army Reserve of Officers] Surrey Comm. 28 Oct 1943 (London Gazette 18 Feb 1944) : [Ralph Robert Soper, accountant, executor of Percy Charles Soper 1939 (who m.1902pcs, see Kent]
: Ralph Robert Soper (1906-95) d.1995 Surrey, Prince Edwards Island, Canada
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Thomas Hugh Sopper, Bayhorne, Horley, Surrey, Lieutenant, 1st Bt. King's Shropshire Light Infantry. (d.8 May Jun 1943) Executor Catherine Isabella Sopper. Claims on Estrate by 8 Mar 1944 (http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36320/pages/199 7 Jan 1944) : [b.1904]
A J C Soper Lt. (Deceased) (277728) Royal Artillery awarded the Efficiency Medal (Territorial) (Lon Gazette 21 Jan 1949) ; [d.10 Jul 1944, bur.Calvados France, WW2, see war deaths]
: John Michael Soper (413640). 22347088 cadets to be 2nd Lts 4 Nov 1950, Royal Army Educational Corps (London Gazette 22 Dec)
: ?a George A M Soper b.Apr>Jun 1919 Wokingham, Berks to George D Soper & Edith A Reed who m.1918, Wokingham &? m.Eileen M West Jan>Mar 1940 Reading, Berks
: WO Cl.1 George Albert Mons Soper (465646), to be Lt (Qe Mr) 9 Nov 1957 (subsituted for Lon Gaz 6 Dec 1957); Lon Gaz 11 Jul 1958 source : [GAM Soper on Lon Gaz 7 Nov 1967, 21 May 1968; 6 Oct 1970 & 19 Mar 1974 (as OBE)]
: Major (Quartermaster) George Albert Mons Soper (465646), Royal Scots (Royal Reg), The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles); Lon Gaz 8 Jun 1968 source
: Lieutenant-Colonel George Albert Mons Soper MBE (465745) The Royal Scots ; Lon Gaz 1 Jan 1973
: Lt Col G A M Soper MBE, curator, Regimental Museum,The Cameronlass? (Scottish Rifles) 129 Muir St : from Museums Calender 1975 Google Books snippet
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: 'Lieutenant Colonel George Soper' ; is the name of a piece of pipe music, a jig. Other colonels are named in tunes source & &
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: 'Lieut Col (Quatermaster) George Albert Mons Soper MBE (454745) The Royal Scots (The Royal Reg) Awarded, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire : from London Gazette 1 Jan 1973 Google Books snippet
