posted on 2024-06-05, 18:59authored byTheir Finest Hour Project Team
This record contains details, photographs and documents relating to the wartime experiences of Norm Hopkins.
History
Item list and details
Word Document – 24 Pages – Norman Hopkins’ Experiences 1937-1945 & Beyond For Finest Hour
B/W Photograph – Norman – Royal Armoured Corps Uniform
B/W Photograph - 9th Rtr Test Run A20 Ashford-Maidstone, Kent
L-R Norman Hopkins, Don Foster, Tom Tomney, Jock Pearson, Ben Beach
B/W Photograph - 9th Rtr C Squadron Troop 13
Norman Hopkins Front Centre / Ginger Kirk Front Rt
B/W Photograph - 9th Rtr C Squadron Troop 13
L-R Norman Hopkins, Jock Pearson, Bill Pinkney, Tom Tomney, Don Foster, Bernard Fitzpatrick, Cyril Rees, Ginger Kirk
B/W Photograph - 13 Troop C Squadron 9th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment At Tank Park -
TOP OF CHARING HILL 1943
B/W Photograph - Crew 9th Rtr C Squadron, Shakers Wood Norfolk.
January 1944 Norman Hopkins 2nd in from right
Colour Photograph - Hm Forces On Leave 3rd Class Charing/Ashford TRAIN TICKET WW2
B/W Photograph : Reunion Zeelandia Hall, Roosendaal, Holland 1994
L-R Tommy, Ginger, Norman Hopkins, Cyril Handley, Mary Hopkins
B/W PHOTOGRAPH : ROOSENDAAL 50TH COMMEMORATION Weekend 1994
L-R Glyn Leyshon, Norman Hopkins, Mary Hopkins
Audio – Norman Hopkins And Ginger Conversation Re. Liberation Roosendaal October 1944
Recorded 1995. Duration: 3 minutes 35 seconds
B/W PHOTOGRAPH: 9th RTR C SQD 13 TROOP Eindhoven Jan 1945
L-R Troopers Jock Pearson and Norman Hopkins
Pdf – Memorial Service 9th Battalion Rtr Held June 17 1945
File - 9th Rtr Farewell Concert Programme 21 June 1945
Pdf – St Dunstan’s Booklet – You Can Conquer Blindness
Multi Tiff – Norman’s Letter To Parents From Church Stretton September 1946
Colour Photograph: Qui S’y Frotte Association Reunion at Charing
COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH: Qui s’y Frotte Association Reunion Charing 1991
L-R Norman Hopkins, Tom Tomney (centre) and Cyril Rees
Colour Photograph: Qui S’y Frotte Association Reunion at Charing
L-R Cyril Rees, Norman Hopkins, Cyril Handley
B/W Photograph: St Dunstan's – Whitehall - Remembrance Sunday November 2000
L-R Cyril Rees and Norman Hopkins
Pdf Document: Extract Of A Letter From Ginger (Holland) To Norman, 2016
Person the story/items relate to
Norman Hopkins
Person who shared the story/items
Susan Moore
Relationship between the subject of the story and its contributor
He was my father.
Type of submission
Shared online via the Their Finest Hour project website.