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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 39

'The Trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible.

Thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.'

Corinthians, upon the 18th (Royal Irish) Regimental Memorial, refers

A rare China 1842 Medal awarded to Lieutenant D. Edwards, 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment, who succumbed to the testing climate, having previously been wounded in the campaign

China 1842 (David Edwards, Lieut. 18th Regiment Foot.), original suspension, the obverse heavily worn and all but obliterated, the reverse somewhat better, private corrections to naming, fair, the naming legible

David Edwards was appointed Ensign in November 1838 and promoted Lieutenant in May 1840. He was present with the regiment throughout the campaign from June 1840 and would have shared in the glory of the storming of Amoy, 26 August 1841, besides being wounded in the operations around Canton, 23-26 May 1841. Edwards would no doubt have been at the head of the Regiment during the Battle of Chapoo, 18 May 1842, when the commanding officer Lieutenant-Colonel N. R. Tomlinson was killed in action during the attack on 'Joss House'. Having spent over two years in the sapping climate on the campaign, Edwards was taken ill and died on 21 July 1842, on which day he likely participated in the storming of Chin-Keang-foo. He is commemorated on the memorial in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. The regiment had suffered 236 men killed, died of wounds or disease by the time the Treaty of Nanking was signed.

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