Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private E. F. Coley, Royal Marines

China 1900, no clasp (E. F. Coley, Pte. R.M. H.M.S. Isis.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (E. F. Coley, Pte. R.M., H.M.S. Cossack.) light contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £280-£320

Edward Francis Coley was born at Cranbrook, Kent, on 15 December 1877, and enlisted into the Royal Marines on 1 January 1896. He was posted to the Chatham Division on 8 July 1896 and served afloat in the following ships: Sans Pareil (February 1897 to February 1898), Isis (May 1898 to January 1902), Cossack (July 1902 to August 1903), Aboukir (November-December 1906), and Sapphire II (January-February 1907). He was discharged on 3 January 1908, on completion of his limited period of service.

Sold with copied record of service.