Birth & early life
Enlistment
Enlisted at London on the 28th of July 1843.
Age: 22.
Height: 5' 5”.
Trade: None shown.
Service, discharge & pension
From Private to Corporal: 23rd of December 1843.
Corporal to Sergeant: 25th of July 1849.
Appointed to Troop Sgt. Major on the 13th of April 1853.
Sent to Scutari in the 1st of November 1854 and died "on board a Hospital Ship" on the 22nd of February 1855.
Medals & commemorations
Entitled (according to the medal rolls) to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman (though if he went to Scutari on the 1st of November 1854 he could not have been entitled to this) Sebastopol and the Turkish medal.
An impressed naming medal, shown as being to "Sergt.-Major R. Hooper. 13th Lt. Dragoons.",with clasps for A.B.I. and “scarce to the Light Brigade”, and a Turkish Crimean medal were sold from a “Valuable collection” at a Glendining's auction on the 11th of June 1911. Said to have been "ex-Palmer" collection
His Crimean medal, with impressed naming to "Troop Serjt. Major R. Hooper. 13th Lt. Drgns." was offered by a dealer at the O.M.R.S. Convention in September of 1986. This medal, known to have the clasps for Alma, Balaclava and Inkerman, was offered at a James of Norwich auction on the 25th of April 1987.
Death & burial
Died "on board a Hospital Ship" on the 22nd of February 1855.
His next of kin was a sister, Eleanor, living in the parish of St. Nicholas, at Worcester. He left £6/15/9d in his “credits”
Photographs & illustrations
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