Auction Catalogue

22 September 2006

Starting at 11:30 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 622

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22 September 2006

Hammer Price:
£280

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (Lieut. F. W. L. Edwards, K.R.R.C.) officially engraved naming, very fine £200-250

Francis William Lloyd Edwards was born on 2 July 1879, second son of the Archbishop of Wales. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he joined the 4th Battalion, K.R.R.C., in May 1900, proceeding with it to South Africa, where it held the blockhouse system near Harrismith, Orange River Colony, till the end of the War in July 1902. Here, Frank Edwards was in command of a post called Hattinghsdal, when he got the nickname of Hattingh, by which he was known in the Regiment all his life. He was subsequently Battalion Signal Officer at Gosport, and from August 1906, to the end of 1908, he was Adjutant. From the 4th Battalion he went as Adjutant to the Rifle Depot, Winchester, until 1912. He took the Eton and Winchester shooting team to Canada that year, and in 1913 was seconded to the Egyptian Army as A.D.C. to the Sirdar.

In 1914 his repeated applications to rejoin his regiment in France were refused by the authorities, but in 1915 he managed to get employed with the Australians at Anzac for the period of his leave. He was twice mentioned in despatches and received the Order of the Nile. He returned from Gallipoli to Khartoum and soon afterwards was appointed A.A.G. at Cairo. At the end of the War he became Military Secretary to the Sirdar at Khartoum and received the O.B.E. He died in London on 19 December 1920.