Ramp Service CPL Mathew Hopkins 7 RAR

Corporal Mathew Hopkins was farewelled by family and friends in Newcastle today.
Mourners crowded Christ Church Cathedral for the service that followed a ramp ceremony at RAAF Williamtown on Monday.

Corporal Hopkins, from the 7th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment, was Killed In Action in Afghanistan on 16 March while on a joint patrol with the Afghan National Army near Kakarak, north in Tarin Kowt in Oruzgan Province.

The patrol was engaged by around 20 Taliban insurgents using small arms and rocket propelled grenades.
Courtesy Australian Defence Media and
www.7rar.asn.org.au and www.delta7rar.com

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