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Deaths of Sergeant William S. and Thomas W. JopsonEntry/Object ID
2013.13.1.133a-bDescription
Clippings and memorabilia from World War I scrapbook compiled by Dr. Naaman H. Keyser, page 130.
Two newspaper clippings are glued to page 130. The first of these, 130a, is a lengthy April 25, 1919 article with the headline "Germantown Hero Ends Life Because of Wounds." It continues with "Not because he needed to struggle for an existence of make his fight in the survival of the fittest- the world did not deny him money, high standing and education. But, possessing these three cherished things, yet in a physical condition which would not enable him to carry on the work for which he had been fitted, Sergeant William Sidney Jopson, a hero of the war, ended his life in his beautiful Germantown home, at 314 High street, late Wednesday afternoon, by sending a rifle bullet through his head... Jopson ended his life while the members of his family were absent. His brother, Lieutenant Arthur B. Jopson, returned in the evening and discovered his lifeless body on a couch in a third-story back room. With a handkerchief he had blindfolded his eyes. And old 22-caliber rifle which he had hung on the wall in the room lay beside him on the floor. Sergeant Jopson was a member of the 103rd Engineers, and aside from engaging in numerous engineering projects both in camps in this country and in fighting areas abroad, spent two months in the trenches. While going over the top in the second battle of the Marne on July 17, 1918, he was severely wounded in the thigh by a piece of shrapnel. At the same time he was also gassed." The article includes a photograph of Sgt. Jopson.
His father had died a short time earlier, according to the second article, 130b. It notes that "Mr. Thomas W. Jopson, of 314 High Street, died of pneumonia, March 8 [1919]. Mr. Jopson was the father of W. Sidney Jopson, '10, Arthur B. Jopson, '13, and John M. Jopson, '16."
Pages are 7.5 x 10".Photograph Details
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