Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant A. E. Hopkins, 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers, who was killed in action during the Second Battle of Passchendaele on 10 November 1917

1914 Star, with clasp (8635 L. Cpl. A. E. Hopkins. S. Wales Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (8635 Sjt. A. E. Hopkins. S. Wales Bord.) the second dark toned, nearly extremely fine (3) £120-£160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Recipients of the 1914 Star.

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Albert Ernest Hopkins was born at St. Woolos, Newport, Pontypool in 1886 and attested for the South Wales Borderers in 1905. Serving with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914, he was killed in action in Belgium during the Second Battle of Passchendaele on 10 November 1917 and is buried at Passchendaele New British Cemetery, Belgium.