Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

China 1842 (William Edwards. H.M.S. Rattlesnake.) original suspension, edge bruising, nearly very fine £400-500

Provenance: Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996.

William Edwards was born at Holyhead, Anglesey, in 1818, and joined the Royal Navy in 1837. He transferred to H.M.S. Rattlesnake as an Able Seaman on 6 August 1839, and served in her during the First China War. He was discharged on 27 May 1844.