Family Group:

Three: Petty Officer 1st Class W. H. Edwards, Royal Navy
Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (184569. W. H. Edwards, P.O. 1Cl: H.M.S. Fox.); British War Medal 1914-20 (184569 W. H. Edwards. P.O.1 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (184569 W. H. Edwards. P.O. 1Cl: H.M.S. Fox.) edge bruising and light contact marks, very fine

Three: Attributed to Sergeant W. H. G. Edwards, Gloucestershire Regiment, late Somerset Light Infantry
1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals, unnamed as issued, very fine (6) £160-£200

William Henry Edwards was born in Penzance, Cornwall, on 3 April 1879, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 23 July 1895. He was advanced Petty Officer 1st Class on 1 January 1910, and joined H.M.S. Fox on 24 May of that year, serving in her during operations in the Persian Gulf. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 8 May 1912. He served during the Great War in various ships and shore based establishments (also entitled to a 1914-15 Star and Victory Medal), before joining the Coast Guard on 15 July 1919, being invalided out of the service on 13 May 1920.

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William Henry George Edwards, the son of William Henry Edwards, was born in Devonport on 18 May 1917, and served during the Second World War in the 9th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry from July 1940 until it was disbanded on 2 November 1944, and later in the 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. He was transferred to the Reserve on 30 April 1946.

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