Orders, Decorations and Medals

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Maj. E. Edwards, 2-15 Punjab R.) good very fine £100-140

Ernest Edwards was born on 24 November 1881 and educated at Clifton College, Bristol, 1893-98. He was commissioned into the Dorsetshire Regiment from the Militia on 7 May 1902. Appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the Indian Army in June 1904; he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in December 1827. Lieutenant-Colonel Edwards retired from military service on 25 December 1931, having served in East Africa during the Great War, 1914-17, in the Afghan War 1919-20, in Mesopotamia, 1921, and in Waziristan, 1922-23. During the Second World War he served with the Civil Defence. He died in 1950. Sold with some copied service details.