Richard's stone in Park Cemetery is a cenotaph of his actual grave in England.
Richard M. Jopling
World War I
Unit Section 623, United States Ambulance Service
Rank Private First Class U.S. Army
Entered Service From Michigan
Date of Death March 16 1919
Buried
Plot B Row 1 Grave 1
Born July 16, 1893, in Marquette, Michigan. Son of James Edmund and Elizabeth Mather Jopling.
Educated Fay and St. Mark's Schools, Southboro, Massachusetts, and Harvard University, Class of 1916, earning his debree at Harvard in 3 years.
He tried to enlist in the military, but was rejected because he was underweight. Instead, he joined up with the Red Cross doing ambulance work for the American Field Service.
Plattsburg Camp, 1916. With New York Red Cross, 1917. Joined American Field Service, September 13, 1917; attached Section Sixty-six.
Transferred to U. S. Army Ambulance Service, Section 66/623. Croix de Guerre, two citations. Died March 16, 1919, in London, from shell-shock and strain.
An American Legion Post in named in his honorin Marquette, Michigan.
For a very extensive biography please see:
- "Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany"
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Memoirs_of_the_Harvard_Dead_in_the_War_A/seXSAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=RICHARD+MATHER+JOPLING&pg=PA559&printsec=frontcover
Sources:
- existing memorial biography
- American Battle Momuments Commission
https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/jopling%3Drichard
- Memorial Volume of the American Field Service in France "FRIENDS OF FRANCE" 1914-1917
https://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/memoir/afshist/Mem8.htm
- The Escanaba Daily Press, Escanaba, Michigan · Wednesday, September 25, 1946
- Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940 (shows Army Service)
- Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil (shows Army Service)
Richard M. Jopling
World War I
Unit Section 623, United States Ambulance Service
Rank Private First Class U.S. Army
Entered Service From Michigan
Date of Death March 16 1919
Buried
Plot B Row 1 Grave 1
Born July 16, 1893, in Marquette, Michigan. Son of James Edmund and Elizabeth Mather Jopling.
Educated Fay and St. Mark's Schools, Southboro, Massachusetts, and Harvard University, Class of 1916, earning his debree at Harvard in 3 years.
He tried to enlist in the military, but was rejected because he was underweight. Instead, he joined up with the Red Cross doing ambulance work for the American Field Service.
Plattsburg Camp, 1916. With New York Red Cross, 1917. Joined American Field Service, September 13, 1917; attached Section Sixty-six.
Transferred to U. S. Army Ambulance Service, Section 66/623. Croix de Guerre, two citations. Died March 16, 1919, in London, from shell-shock and strain.
An American Legion Post in named in his honorin Marquette, Michigan.
For a very extensive biography please see:
- "Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany"
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Memoirs_of_the_Harvard_Dead_in_the_War_A/seXSAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=RICHARD+MATHER+JOPLING&pg=PA559&printsec=frontcover
Sources:
- existing memorial biography
- American Battle Momuments Commission
https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/jopling%3Drichard
- Memorial Volume of the American Field Service in France "FRIENDS OF FRANCE" 1914-1917
https://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/memoir/afshist/Mem8.htm
- The Escanaba Daily Press, Escanaba, Michigan · Wednesday, September 25, 1946
- Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940 (shows Army Service)
- Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil (shows Army Service)
Richard's stone in Park Cemetery is a cenotaph of his actual grave in England.
Richard M. Jopling
World War I
Unit Section 623, United States Ambulance Service
Rank Private First Class U.S. Army
Entered Service From Michigan
Date of Death March 16 1919
Buried
Plot B Row 1 Grave 1
Born July 16, 1893, in Marquette, Michigan. Son of James Edmund and Elizabeth Mather Jopling.
Educated Fay and St. Mark's Schools, Southboro, Massachusetts, and Harvard University, Class of 1916, earning his debree at Harvard in 3 years.
He tried to enlist in the military, but was rejected because he was underweight. Instead, he joined up with the Red Cross doing ambulance work for the American Field Service.
Plattsburg Camp, 1916. With New York Red Cross, 1917. Joined American Field Service, September 13, 1917; attached Section Sixty-six.
Transferred to U. S. Army Ambulance Service, Section 66/623. Croix de Guerre, two citations. Died March 16, 1919, in London, from shell-shock and strain.
An American Legion Post in named in his honorin Marquette, Michigan.
For a very extensive biography please see:
- "Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany"
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Memoirs_of_the_Harvard_Dead_in_the_War_A/seXSAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=RICHARD+MATHER+JOPLING&pg=PA559&printsec=frontcover
Sources:
- existing memorial biography
- American Battle Momuments Commission
https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/jopling%3Drichard
- Memorial Volume of the American Field Service in France "FRIENDS OF FRANCE" 1914-1917
https://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/memoir/afshist/Mem8.htm
- The Escanaba Daily Press, Escanaba, Michigan · Wednesday, September 25, 1946
- Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940 (shows Army Service)
- Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil (shows Army Service)
Richard M. Jopling
World War I
Unit Section 623, United States Ambulance Service
Rank Private First Class U.S. Army
Entered Service From Michigan
Date of Death March 16 1919
Buried
Plot B Row 1 Grave 1
Born July 16, 1893, in Marquette, Michigan. Son of James Edmund and Elizabeth Mather Jopling.
Educated Fay and St. Mark's Schools, Southboro, Massachusetts, and Harvard University, Class of 1916, earning his debree at Harvard in 3 years.
He tried to enlist in the military, but was rejected because he was underweight. Instead, he joined up with the Red Cross doing ambulance work for the American Field Service.
Plattsburg Camp, 1916. With New York Red Cross, 1917. Joined American Field Service, September 13, 1917; attached Section Sixty-six.
Transferred to U. S. Army Ambulance Service, Section 66/623. Croix de Guerre, two citations. Died March 16, 1919, in London, from shell-shock and strain.
An American Legion Post in named in his honorin Marquette, Michigan.
For a very extensive biography please see:
- "Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany"
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Memoirs_of_the_Harvard_Dead_in_the_War_A/seXSAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=RICHARD+MATHER+JOPLING&pg=PA559&printsec=frontcover
Sources:
- existing memorial biography
- American Battle Momuments Commission
https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/jopling%3Drichard
- Memorial Volume of the American Field Service in France "FRIENDS OF FRANCE" 1914-1917
https://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/memoir/afshist/Mem8.htm
- The Escanaba Daily Press, Escanaba, Michigan · Wednesday, September 25, 1946
- Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940 (shows Army Service)
- Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil (shows Army Service)
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