Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private T. J. Hawkins, Royal Marine Light Infantry, later Royal Air Force

1914-15 Star (Po.4832, Pte. T. J. Hawkins, R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Po. 4832 Pte. T. J. Hawkins. R.M.L.I.) contact marks, nearly very fine (3) £50-£70

Thomas Jospeh Hawkins was born in Paddington, London, on 29 April 1871, and enlisted in the Royal Marine Light Infantry in London on his 18th birthday. He was discharged, time expired, on 5 June 1901, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve on 14 September 1907. Recalled to the Royal Marine Light Infantry on 2 August 1914, he served throughout the Great War with the Portsmouth Division, and in France, transferring to the Royal Air Force on 1 April 1918. He was disembodied on 27 February 1919.