Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Stoker T. L. Hopkins, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (173567, T. L. Hopkins, Ch. Sto., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (173567 T. L. Hopkins. Ch. Sto. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (175367 T. L. Hopkins, Sto. P.O. H.M.S. Vivid) very fine (4) £120-£160

Thomas Lionel Hopkins was born at Avening, Gloucester, on 8 November 1872 and commenced his naval service as a Stoker Second Class in H.M.S. Vivid II on 6 May 1893. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in May 1908, and subsequently joined the Royal Fleet Reserve, Recalled for War service, he was shore demobilised in November 1919.