Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘Mesopotamia’ M.C. group of five awarded to Captain W. E. Hopkins, Royal Army Medical Corps

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.); India General Service 1908, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Capt., R.A.M.C.), unit officially re-impressed on last, slight edge bruise to last, good very fine and better (5) £700-800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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M.C. London Gazette 7 February 1918.

M.I.D. not confirmed.

William Edward Hopkins gained a B.A., Dublin, 1906; L.M. at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, 1907; M.B., B.Ch. and B.A.O., Dublin, 1908; was appointed a F.R.C.S.I. in 1910 and qualified as a M.D. in 1915. Appointed a Temporary Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. in October 1914 and a Temporary Captain in October the following year. He entered the Egypt theatre of war on 8 June 1915. Awarded the M.C. in 1918 for services in Mesopotamia and later served on the N.W. Frontier. Post-war he was at times House Physician at the Whitworth & Hardwick Hospital, Dublin and House Surgeon at the Richmond Hospital, Dublin. In later life he lived at Southbourne, Bournemouth. Sold with some copied research.