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Colour Sergeant Albert Hawkins

B Company, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Karachi, India, 1939. Colour Sergeant Albert Hawkins is seated fourth from the left.
Accession Number: KO2850/01

B Company, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Karachi, India, 1939. Colour Sergeant Albert Hawkins is seated fourth from the left.
Accession Number: KO2850/02

Group of the 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, in India, circa 1939
Accession Number: KO2850/03

Group of the 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment in India, circa 1937-40 with Machine Guns
Accession Number: KO2850/04

Group of the 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment in India, circa 1937-40 with Machine Guns
Accession Number: KO2850/05

Albert Hawkins, 1st Battalion, King’s Own, in Aldershot, 1927
Accession Number: KO2850/06

Group of 1st Battalion, King’s Own, soldiers in Palestine circa 1930, Albert Hawkins in marked on the very right of the photograph.
Accession Number: KO2850/07

Group of 1st Battalion, King’s Own, soldiers in Palestine circa 1930, Albert Hawkins in marked on the very right of the photograph.
Accession Number: KO2850/08

Football team, 1st Battalion, King’s Own, India circa 1937-40
Accession Number: KO2850/09

Group of 1st Battalion, King’s Own soldiers, India circa 1937-40
Accession Number: KO2850/10

Ruth Hawkins, daughter of Albert Hawkins, at Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster in 1936
Accession Number: KO2850/11

Ruth Hawkins with three ladies, outside the married quarters at Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster, 1936
Accession Number: KO2850/12

Ruth Hawkins with three ladies, outside the married quarters at Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster, 1936
Accession Number: KO2850/13

Copy of Army Certificate of Education, Third Class, to Private Albert Hawkins, Depot, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster, dated 9 Nov 1926
Accession Number: KO2850/27

Ruth Hawkins at the beach at Manora (?) off the coast of India, 1940.
Accession Number: KO2850/28

Certificate of the “Honourable Society of Gleaners” School children were encouraged to collection scrap cartridges from the firing range and take them to school where they were weighed and sent off for the war effort.
Certificate dated 13 Apr 1942 and named to Ruth Hawkins ‘Right Honourable Gleaner”
Accession Number: KO2850/29

Certificate of the “Honourable Society of Gleaners” School children were encouraged to collection scrap cartridges from the firing range and take them to school where they were weighed and sent off for the war effort.
Certificate dated 11 Dec 1941 and named to Ruth Hawkins, ‘Scraper’
Accession Number: KO2850/30

Certificate of the “Honourable Society of Gleaners” School children were encouraged to collection scrap cartridges from the firing range and take them to school where they were weighed and sent off for the war effort.
Certificate dated 11 Dec 1941 and named to Ruth Hawkins, ‘Very Honourable Gleaner’
Accession Number: KO2850/31

Baptism Certificate for Ruth Hawkins, Lichfield, 15 Aug 1934
Accession Number: KO2850/32

Sergeant Albert Hawkins with a crashed German plane, India, circa 1939.
Accession Number: KO2850/33

Four children on wall, 1942, including Ruth Hawkins.
Accession Number: KO2850/34

Army school friends, group of ten children, India, circa 1942, Ruth Hawkins marked by arrow.
Accession Number: KO2850/35

Just back from school, group of five and man. Ruth Hawkins stood on the first from left.
Accession Number: KO2850/36

Lance corporal Albert Hawkins, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster.
Accession Number: KO2850/37

Mother, two ladies and Ruth Hawkins, outside the married quarters at Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster, Sep 1936
Accession Number: KO2850/38

Mother, two ladies and Ruth Hawkins, outside the married quarters at Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster, Sep 1936
Accession Number: KO2850/39

Dad’s (Albert Hawkins) Army Friend with Ruth and peggy the dog, 1937/38.
Accession Number: KO2850/40

Beach in India, with Albert Hawkins, mother, Kenny, baby Carol and Ruth Hawkins. 1st King’s Own circa 1940.
Accession Number: KO2850/41

Group in front of Bungalow, India. Mother with baby Carol, and Kenny and Ruth Hawkins. Circa 1940, India.
Accession Number: KO2850/42

Mother and Ruth Hawkins, at Wellington, India, 2 May 1937
Accession Number: KO2850/43

Ruth and Kenny Hawkins and friend Doreen with two Indian ladies at Fort St. George, Madras, India.
Accession Number: KO2850/44

Mother and Kenny (born 1937) at Fort St. George, Madras, India
Accession Number: KO2850/45

Ken Hawkins with father’s stick, India.
Accession Number: KO2850/46

Mother, Baby Ken and Ruth Hawkins, 1937
Accession Number: KO2850/47

Ruth and Albert Hawkins just before a parade, circa 1937.
Accession Number: KO2850/48

Mother, Ruth Hawkins and Ayah, India, 1937
Accession Number: KO2850/49

A brother for me, our Ayah holding brother Ken Hawkins and Ruth Hawkins, 1938, India.
Accession Number: KO2850/50

Corporal Albert Hawkins and Corporal A Grieg, Whittington Barracks, Lichfield circa 1933.
Accession Number: KO2850/51

Ruth Hawkins, mother and grand parents at Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster, circa 1935/36.
Accession Number: KO2850/52

Troops marching in the Evelyn Wood Competition, 1927, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Albert Hawkins marked with arrow.
Accession Number: KO2850/53

Troopship HMT Somersetshire, 1937, which took the Hawkins family out to India to join the 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2850/54

Menora, India. Army children, 1940. Ruth and Ken Hawkins are at the extreme right of the group.
Accession Number: KO2850/55

Hawkins Family Return to Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster, 1950s
Accession Number: KO2850/56

Hawkins Family Return to Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster, 1950s
Accession Number: KO2850/57

Hawkins Family Return to Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster, 1950s
Accession Number: KO2850/58

Garrison Children’s School, Napier Barracks, Karachi – Term Report Jun 1941 for Ruth Hawkins.
Accession Number: KO2850/59

Garrison Children’s School, Napier Barracks, Karachi – Term Report Jun 1942 for Ruth Hawkins.
Accession Number: KO2850/60

   
Small medal, 18 mm diameter, ‘1st Bn King’s Own Royal Regt’ with ‘Karachi 1940’ stamped on the rear.
Medals were presented to Ruth Hawkins, and her brother, at Christmas 1940 as there were no Christmas presents, that’s all they received.
Accession Number: KO2850/61

Box of issue for medal (Accession Number: KO2850/61) Marked: J Manikrai & Sons Manufacturing Jewellers, Silversmith, Camp Karachi.
Accession Number: KO2850/62

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