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Pair: Petty Officer H. W. Hopkins Royal Navy, who was killed in action when H.M.S....
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Pair: Petty Officer H. W. Hopkins Royal Navy, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Formidable was torpedoed and sunk by U-24 off Lyme Regis on 1 January 1915 Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (162720 H. W. Hopkins. P.O. 1 Cl. H.M.S. Perseus.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (162720 H. W. Hopkins. P.O. H.M.S. Scylla.) nearly extremely fine (2) £180-£220 --- Henry William Hopkins was born in Sandwich, Kent, on 20 March 1875 and enlisted on the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 16 September 1891. Serving in a wide variety of ships and shore based establishments, he was advanced Petty Officer First Class on 8 January 1907, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 4 February 1908. He served in H.M.S. Perseus from 19 December 1911 to 19 September 1913, and consequently in H.M.S. Formidable from 24 June 1914, serving in her in the early months of the Great War. He was killed in action in 1 January 1915, when Formidable was torpedoed and sunk by U-24 off Lyme Regis; out of a crew of 780, there were fewer than 200 survivors. Hopkins is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial. Sold with a copy of the book ‘Before the Bells have Faded - The Sinking of H.M.S. Formidable January 1, 1915’, by Mark Potts and Tony Marks; copied service record; and other research.
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Pair: Petty Officer H. W. Hopkins Royal Navy, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Formidable was torpedoed and sunk by U-24 off Lyme Regis on 1 January 1915 Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (162720 H. W. Hopkins. P.O. 1 Cl. H.M.S. Perseus.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (162720 H. W. Hopkins. P.O. H.M.S. Scylla.) nearly extremely fine (2) £180-£220 --- Henry William Hopkins was born in Sandwich, Kent, on 20 March 1875 and enlisted on the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 16 September 1891. Serving in a wide variety of ships and shore based establishments, he was advanced Petty Officer First Class on 8 January 1907, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 4 February 1908. He served in H.M.S. Perseus from 19 December 1911 to 19 September 1913, and consequently in H.M.S. Formidable from 24 June 1914, serving in her in the early months of the Great War. He was killed in action in 1 January 1915, when Formidable was torpedoed and sunk by U-24 off Lyme Regis; out of a crew of 780, there were fewer than 200 survivors. Hopkins is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial. Sold with a copy of the book ‘Before the Bells have Faded - The Sinking of H.M.S. Formidable January 1, 1915’, by Mark Potts and Tony Marks; copied service record; and other research.
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