Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Able Seaman E. H. Leadley, Royal Navy

British War and Victory Medals (J.64186 Ord., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Special Constabulary Long Service, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Edgar H. Laedley); Civil Defence L.S. Medal, E.II.R. (Edgar Leadley) privately engraved, mounted as worn, slight edge bruising, good very fine and better (7) £60-80

Edgar Howard Leadley was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, on 12 August 1898. A Farm Labourer by occupation, he entered the Royal Navy as an Ordinary Seaman on 29 October 1916. Served on Dreadnought, March 1917-August 1918. Then served at Victory I, August-October 1918, followed by service at Greenwich (Scapa Flow) on the destroyer Vampire, October 1918-May 1919. Demobilised on 11 May 1919. He re-entered the Royal Navy as an Able Seaman on 22 June 1939. With copied service paper.