Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (2) (T. H. Edwards, Ch. Sto., H.M.S. Mutine.; 180499 A. G. Finch, Painter 2Cl, H.M.S. Fantome.) minor edge bruising, good very fine (2) £80-£120

Thomas Henry Edwards was born in Cardiff on 6 March 1870, and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class on 9 January 1890. He joined H.M.S. Mutine on 5 November 1903, was advanced Chief Stoker on 5 November 1904, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal 21 February 1905. He was invalided out of the service to pension on 16 October 1909, having sustained a severe injury in an accident in H.M.S. Triumph on 26 March 1909. Following the outbreak of the Great War he attempted to re-join, but was refused as medically unfit.

Alfred George Finch was born at Stoke Damarel, Devonshire, on 26 February 1877, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 10 August 1894. He was advanced to Painter 2nd Class on 15 July 1904, and joined H.M.S. Fantome on 23 January 1909, being awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 25 May 1910. Advanced Painter 1st Class on 15 July 1910, he served during the Great War in H.M.S. Ajax, and was ‘discharged dead’ on 1 April 1915, dying from a ruptured aneurysm. He is buried in Osmondwall Cemetery, Orkney.

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