Orders, Decorations and Medals

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (172[0] Pte. E. Matthews, 2d Bn. S. Wales Bord.) edge bruise to reverse, good very fine £120-160

Edward Matthews was born in Taunton. A Labourer by occupation, he attested for the South Wales Borderers at Brecon on 16 January 1886, aged 19 years. With copied roll extract which lists him as ‘Dead’.