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Kitchener Public Library
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Soldier Information Cards - World War Two
Transcription
Hopf, H. J. "Sunny"
(clipping) Kitchener Record 10 Feb. 1945
(image)
Driver - Pte. H. J. Hopf, 14 King St. E., has returned from overseas. He drove army trucks in England and France for two years.
(clipping) Kitchener Record 17 Feb. 1945
Suffers Stomach Hurts Near Caen
"I was sitting on the ground waiting for an appointment with the medical officer who was going to give me something for my stomach. I got something for my stomach alright, but it came from Jerry - not the M.O."
"He sent over an 88-mm. shell and a piece of shrapnel got me in the stomach. One of my companions was killed and four others were casualties. I was in hospital a month," said Pte. H.J. (Sunny) Hopf, who arrived back in Kitchener last night after two years and eight months overseas.
He received his wound near Caen.
Son of Mrs. Magdalene Hopf, 14 King St. E., the soldier has been returned to Canada owing to ill health.
"I had a couple other close calls but everybody has them," said the soldier. "Most of the time I was driving a truck for the R.C.A.S.C. It was a good job and in some ways much easier in France than in England. The French highways were practically all hard-surfaced, broad and straight, which was quite different from the narrow, winding roads of England."
"The feature I didn"t like was the slow speeds used in travel. Practically all our work was in convoys, travelling from five to 30 miles an hour. If you have a truck in front of you and another behind, it gets monotonous cruising along at only five miles an hour."
The soldier married an English girl last June and expects her to join him in Canada soon.
He was born in Kitchener and lived here until enlistment in January, 1942. He was also a truck driver in civilian life.