Major General George Frederick Hopkinson OBE MC was a soldier in the British Army who commanded the 1st Airborne Division during the Second World War. After working for a period prior to the beginning of the First World War as an engineering apprentice, Hopkinson was commissioned into the North Staffordshire Regiment and then posted to France as a signal officer in the 72nd Infantry Brigade.

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