Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

South Africa 1877-79, no clasp (H. Edwards, A.B, H.M.S. “Orontes”) good very fine £240-£280

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The James Fox Collection of Naval Awards.

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Dix Noonan Webb, June 2002.

Henry Edwards was born in Holmer, Hereford, on 14 August 1855 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy First Class on 1 January 1873. He served in H.M.S. Orontes from 20 February 1878 to 1 August 1881, and was promoted Able Seaman on 1 July 1878. He was shore discharged, time expired, on 23 August 1883.

Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extract.