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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 845

Three: 2nd Lieutenant J. H. Edwards, 6th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers, attached 25th (Montgomeryshire & Welsh Horse) Battalion, who was killed in action in France in September 1917

1914-15 Star (18839 Pte. J. H. Edwards, R.W. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. J. H. Edwards), the last with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine (3)

John Henry Edwards first saw action in France, where he landed as a Private in the 6th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers on 2 December 1915. Subsequently commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, he was attached to the 25th (Montgomeryshire & Welsh Horse) Battalion and was killed in action in France on 21 September 1918.

Aged 25, he was the son of Henry Lewis and Agnes Edwards of 54 Park Avenue, Longsight, Manchester, and is buried in Cabaret-Rouge British War cemetery, Souchez.


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Sold for
£290

Starting price
£110