Auction Catalogue

15 December 2011

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 515

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15 December 2011

Hammer Price:
£410

Five: Second Lieutenant F. M. Edwards, Egypt Camel Transport Corps and Royal Army Service Corps

1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); Defence Medal, unnamed; Egypt, Order of the Nile, 5th Class breast badge, by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, good very fine (5) £220-260

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Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class London Gazette 16 March 1926. ‘Francis Millward Edwards, Esq., Inspector, Egyptian Ministry of Finance, Damanhur, Egypt.’

Francis Millward Edwards was born on 14 March 1886. An Arabic speaker, before the war he worked for the Egyptian Ministry of Education and was an Assistant Master at Tewfikia School. Edwards was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant with the Egypt Camel Transport Corps on 30 December 1915 and served at Kantara as Section Officer of ‘B’ Company. He was admitted to hospital at Cairo on 22 October 1916 and was found to be suffering from Neurasthenia - his medical report stating: ‘... agitated; states that he is unable to control himself with natives. He is quite unfit for any work. Recommended for change to England, as he is unlikely to be fit for a long time.’

The doctor’s report was acted upon and Edwards was invalided to England in November 1916 aboard H.M.H.S.
Herefordshire and thence Britannic. Recovering, he returned to Egypt in March 1917 and saw service in Palestine and Egypt with the Camel Transport Corps. 2nd Lieutenant Edwards was released from military service on 17 June 1919 and in 1921 was granted the rank of Lieutenant. Remaining in Egypt, Edwards was employed as an Inspector with the Ministry of Finance and in 1926 was awarded the Order of the Nile. With copied m.i.c., gazette extract and a number of medical and service papers.