Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘Gallipoli’ D.C.M. pair to Company Sergeant-Major H. Edwards, Essex Regiment

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (5247 C.S. Mjr., Essex R.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (5247 C.S. Mjr., Essex R.) good very fine (2) £800-1000

D.C.M. London Gazette 11 March 1916. ‘For conspicuous gallantry on the 6th August, 1915, on the Gallipoli Peninsula, while in charge of a barricade in a captured Turkish trench. He exhibited great bravery and skill in maintaining his position all night in spite of repeated attacks’.