Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

South Atlantic 1982, without rosette (T. J. Hotchkin) extremely fine £300-£400

T. J. Hotchkin served aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 during the Falklands War, one of 650 Cunard employees aboard the great ocean liner who volunteered their services to the Crown. Converted into a troopship by Vosper Thorneycroft at Southampton, she steamed south to South Georgia carrying over 3,000 men of the Fifth Infantry Brigade, returning home on 11 June 1982.