Henry Oppé

Lieutenant Henry Sigismund Oppé was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 30 July 1880,Charterhouse Register 1872-1910, pp. 545-6 in Camberwell, the fourth son of German parents Siegmund Armin, of Lyons silk and feathers, and Pauline Oppé (née Jaffe).Lyles, Anne (1997), British Watercolours From the Oppé Collection: With a Selection of Drawings and Oil Sketches, p. 9. Oppé attended Charterhouse and New College, Oxford, where he became a "History Scholar". On graduating from Oxford with a first class in modern history, Oppé was articled to Messrs. Hollams, Hawkesley & Coward. He departed for Shanghai in 1906, joining the firm Drummond, Whyte Cooper & Phillips as a partner.The Times (41012), Col E, p. 12: "Fallen Officers". 15 November 1915.
Oppé volunteered for the army while still in China and obtained a commission via the British legation in Peking. He returned to England in March 1915, entering the 11th Battalion, Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment). With the 6th Yorkshires, to which he was attached from September, Oppé landed at Gallipoli and died on 6 November 1915, reportedly killed while engaging Turkish snipers.The North-China Herald and Supreme Court and Consular Gazette
, Volume 118, p. 183. His twin brother, Thomas, a second lieutenant in the Cameronians, died in May 1917.
He is buried in Hill 10 Cemetery.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Oppe, Henry Sigismund, cwgc.org. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
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