Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (M.36757 E. H. Hawkins, Shpt. 2. H.M.S. Hood) extremely fine and an emotive Second War casualty £200-300

Ernest Harold Hawkins was killed in action on 24 May 1941, whilst serving as a Shipwright 1st Class aboard H.M.S. Hood when she was sunk by the battleship Bismarck. He was aged 35, son of Ernest Loney Hawkins and Ada Winifred Rose Hawkins; husband of Liv Borgny Hawkins, of Cosham, Hampshire. Commemorated by name on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.