IN MEMORIAM

David HOOPER

circa 1935 to late 1954

AAS Arborfield Intake 51A

During 2004 Reg HARPER (51A) made attempts to contact his old Arborfield mate David HOOPER, the sad outcome of which was the receipt of a letter from another of David’s old friends in Liskeard informing Reg that David had died of TB during the latter half of 1954. May he rest in peace.

Heaven delivers on earth the Hour that cannot be thwarted,

Neither advanced, at the price of a world nor a soul, and its Prophet

Comes through the blood of the vanguards who dreamed – too soon – it had sounded.

“Untimely” - Rudyard Kipling

[With grateful thanks to Reg HARPER for providing this information]