Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Able Seaman A. J. Edmonds, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (216904, A. J. Edmonds, A.B., R,N.); British War and Victory Medals (216904 A. J. Edmonds, A.B. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (216904 A. J. Edmonds. A.B. H.M.S. Sandhurst.) contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £100-£140

Albert James Edmonds was born on 20 March 1886, at Camberwell, London, and commenced his naval service as a Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Impregnable, on 26 March 1901. He was appointed Ordinary Seaman, H.M.S. Implacable, on 20 March 1904 and Able Seaman, 15 February 1906. During the Great War he served in various ships and shore based establishments, including H.M.S. Woolwich for H.M.S. Ariel, H.M.S. Oracle, H.M.S. Columbine (Windsor), and H.M.S. Sandhurst, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in April 1919. He was shore pensioned in March 1926, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve. He was recalled to H.M.S. Vernon in 1939, but was invalided out of the service from the Royal Naval Hospital Invergordon, in June 1943.