1. Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW 1 ROH (1917) and Bygone Queanbeyan
2. “MAPPING ANZACS”: Service Number: 790; POB: Sydney: POE: Broadmeadows, NSW; NOK: Friend: Mrs Ellen Wilson."Yululah" Queanbeyan.
3. AWM Embarkation Roll: Rank: Private; Unit: 36 Infantry Battalion (May 1916); Age: 20; Occupation: Clerk; DOE: 29.01.1916; Embarked: 13.05.1916. Sydney. HMAT Beltana. A72.
4. AWM Nominal Roll: Rank: Private; Unit: 33 Battalion; DOE: 23.2.1916: RTA: Wounded 24.08.1918 DOW 27.08.1918. Buried Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, France. (2.75 miles West of Corbie). Note: NAA file indicates that Charles was promoted to Lance Corporal 6.7.1918 "vice Moore" and hence he is recorded as such in this record for the Bungendore War Memorial.
5. See: OUR SOLDIERS BUNGENDORE & THE GREAT WAR. Glenda Ellis .2007.ISBN:978-1-74027-487-6
6. By Bob Hoyer (Sutton) 13.11.2013:This photograph is inscribed on the back: "Yours sincerely No 790 Pte C.F. Hopkins C Coy 36 Battalion 9th Brigade A.I.F. France On active service." Charles Francis was born on 5 February 1896 to Ada Hopkins (Nee Compton) and christened Charles Francis Byrnes Hopkins - Byrnes being the surname of his biological father. He and his two younger brothers at the time were taken into care by the State on 12 July 1906 and all three were then taken under the guardianship of Bridget Crozier of Bungendore in 1909. The Electoral Roll of that time only shows a Bridget Cosier, the wife of Robert who was a blacksmith in Bungendore. While the two brothers were transferred to a family in Picton in 1912, Charles remained in Bungendore in the care of Farther Kenny. Charles worked for Mr F Leahy before moving to Barmedman to train as an auctioneer under Mr F Reid and it was from here he enlisted as one of “Carmichael’s Riflemen”. His mate from Barmedman, Harold white (900), with whom he enlisted was fatally wounded some months earlier.
7. Australian Red Cross Society Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau files,1914-1918 War 1DRL/0428 provides reports of death. www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1049284.
8. Commemorated on tne Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Panel 122.
9.Application to use Rising Sun Badge:On 03 November 2015 the Bungendore War Memorial Committee applied to Army Branding to use the Rising Sun badge on the proposed street sign for "Hopkins" in the town of Bungendore as part of the Centenary of ANZAC Commemorations. This request was approved on 21 DEcember 2015.
11. "Hopkins" roadway as proposed at para 7 above has been implemented by Palerang Council.
10. Last updated January 2017.
