Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (K. 63025 D. C. Hockley, Ch. Sto., H.M.S. Glorious) contact marks and one or two edge bruises, about very fine £40-60

Dennis Charles Hockley was born in Battersea, London in August 1900 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in August 1918. Between the Wars he enjoyed a number of seagoing appointments in destroyers, in addition to the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Glorious, aboard which latter ship he was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal.

Hockley died ‘On War Service’ on 4 November 1940 while serving at the Devonport shore establishment Drake IV, quite probably as a result of an enemy air raid. Aged 40 years, he was interred in the Plymouth (Weston Mill) Cemetery, Devon (Grave 3524).