Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

01/01/1918

Date of Discharge

17/09/1919

Place of Enlistment

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

24/05/1897

Place of Birth

Stawell, Victoria

Address (at enlistment)

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Occupation

Soldier

Next of Kin

Rose Margaret Burton (mother), Nagambie, Victoria

Final Rank

Lieutenant

Final Unit

6 Light Horse Regiment AIF

Hopkins entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon in February 1915 and graduated at the end of 1917 when he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in a Special Draft of RMC graduates. He arrived in Egypt in April 1918 and served with the 6th Light Horse Regiment. He served in World War 2 and with the British Occupation Force in Japan after the war before becoming Commandant of the Royal Military College in 1951 and retiring in 1954. He died in Walkerville, South Australia on 24 November 1990. Hopkins Drive in Duntroon is named after him.

Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
Australian Dictionary of Biography online ://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hopkins-ronald-nicholas-lamond-12655/text22805, accessed online 5 June 2014
Stand-to: Journal of the Australian Capital Territory Branch, RSSAILA. Jan. 1951 (p.12)
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
AWM collections record : B01520