Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant Ivor Edwards, Royal Field Artillery

1914-15 Star (W-2693 Dvr: I. Edwards. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (W-2693 Sjt. I. Edwards. R.A.) together with a R.A.O.B. Founder’s jewel, silver-gilt and enamels, the reverse hallmarked Birmingham 1912, and inscribed ‘Presented to Sir Ivor Edwards from the Flower of Rhydyfelin Lodge for Valuable Services Rendered. Dec. 29. 1913’, the top suspension pin enamelled ‘Founder’, very fine or better (4) £40-£50

Ivor Edwards was born at Llanwonno, Rhondda, Glamorgan, on 14 December 1883. He served in France as a Driver in the Royal Field Artillery from Christmas Day 1915, and was subsequently promoted to Sergeant. He was an ardent supporter of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes Lodges and had a lodge named after him in Llantwit Fardre, the Sir Ivor Edwards Lodge. He was frequently mentioned in local newspapers. He was later living in Pontypridd with his wife and working as a colliery pay and cost clerk. They had two sons, one of whom won the D.F.M. in 1943. Ivor Edwards died at Pontypridd on 20 June 1942, and is buried in Glyntaff Cemetery. Sold with copied research.

For the D.F.M. group awarded to the recipient’s son, see Lot 156.