Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Chief Petty Officer J. L. Edmonds, Royal Navy, killed in action aboard H.M.S. Hogue in September 1914
Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (P.O.1Cl., H.M.S. Fox); 1914-15 Star Trio (147080 C.P.O., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (C.P.O. H.M.S. Pembroke) together with Bronze Memorial Plaque (Joseph Leonard Edmonds) this in original packet and envelope addressed to his wife, and also letter forwarding Great War medals to his wife, generally good very fine (6) £250-300

Chief Petty Officer Joseph Leonard Edmonds was killed in action on 22 September 1914 in H.M.S. Hogue, which together with the Aboukir and Cressy, she was sunk by Lieutenant Otto Weddigen in the U.9, about 30 miles from Ymuiden. The total loss of life in this triple disaster was over 1400 officers and men, the survivors numbering 60 officers and 777 men.