Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Chief Petty Officer J. L. Edmonds, Royal Navy, killed in action aboard H.M.S. Hogue in September 1914

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (P.O.1Cl., H.M.S. Fox); 1914-15 Star Trio (147080 C.P.O., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (C.P.O. H.M.S. Pembroke) together with Memorial Plaque (Joseph Leonard Edmonds) this in original card packet of issue and also letter forwarding Great War medals to his wife, generally good very fine (6) £400-500

Chief Petty Officer Joseph Leonard Edmonds was killed in action on 22 September 1914 in H.M.S. Hogue, which together with the Aboukir and Cressy, were sunk by Lieutenant Otto Weddigen in the U.9, about 30 miles from Ymuiden. The total loss of life in this triple disaster was over 1400 officers and men, the survivors numbering 60 officers and 777 men. Sold with copied service papers.