Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Engineer Lieutenant W. H. Edwards, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Artr. Engr., H.M.S. Doris) impressed naming; 1914-15 Star (Ch. Art. Eng., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Eng. Lt., R.N.) nearly extremely fine (4) £200-250

William H. Edwards was commissioned as Artificer Engineer on 1 November 1900. After service aboard Doris in South Africa from October 1899 to March 1901, he served mainly aboard torpedo boat destroyers and gun-boats. He was promoted to Chief Artificer Engineer in 1904 and, in April 1915, was appointed Engineer Lieutenant at Wei-hai-wei Dockyard, where he remained until April 1920.