Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Carte de Visite studio portrait photographs (2) of Corporal William Norman, V.C., and Major William Mourdant Marsh Edwards, V.C., good condition (2) £60-£80

Corporal William Norman, Royal Fusiliers
V.C. London Gazette 24 February 1857.
‘On the night of the 19th December, 1854, he was placed on single sentry, some distance in front of the advanced sentries of an outlying picquet in the White Horse Ravine, a post of much danger, and requiring great vigilance; the Russian picquet was posted about 300 yards in his front, three Russian soldiers advanced, under cover of the brushwood, for the purpose of reconnoitring. Private William Norman, single-handed, took two of them prisoners, without alarming the Russian picquet.’

Major William Mordaunt Marsh Edwards, Highland Light Infantry
V.C. London Gazette 13 February 1883.
‘For conspicuous bravery displayed by him during the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, on the 13th September, 1882, in leading a party of the Highland Light Infantry to storm a redoubt. Lieutenant Edwards (who was in advance of his party) with great gallantry rushed alone into the battery, killed the Artillery Officer in charge,and was himself knocked down by a gunner with a rammer,and only rescued by the timely arrival of three men of his regiment.’