Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Chief Boatswain’s Mate D. Edwards, Royal Navy

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (A.B.), officially impressed naming; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Chf. Boatsns. Mate, H.M.S. Rl. Adelaide, 20 Yrs.) engraved naming, one or two edge bruises, good very fine (2) £500-550

Ex D.N.W. 27 June 2002.

Daniel Edwards was born at Ramsgate, Kent in April 1832 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Superb in February 1847. An Able Seaman by the time of joining the Rodney in April 1852, he went on to witness active service in the Crimea War, including the Sebastopol operations. Edwards became a Chief Boatswain’s Mate in September 1864 and received his L.S. & G.C. Medal in July 1870, when he was pensioned ashore. With copied service papers.