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The Douglas-Morris Collection of Naval Medals Six: Crimea 1854-55, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (H. H. Edwards Naval Cadet, H.M.S. Valorous) contemporary engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-58, no clasp (Midn. H. H. Edwards Pearl); China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Fatshan 1857, unnamed as issued; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Comdr. H. H. Edwards R.N. H.M.S. “Ready”); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, fitted with replacement scroll suspension; Khedive’s Star 1882, contact marks to the earlier medals, therefore nearly very fine and better (6) Footnote Herbert H. Edwards was born in September 1840 and joined the service as a Naval Cadet aboard H.M.S. POWERFUL on 11 May 1854, and transferred to H.M.S. VALOROUS on 14 October 1854 to take part in the Crimean War. He was present at the chase of VLADIMIR under heavy fire from the forts of Sebastopol and took part in the battle of Eupatoria and was at the shelling of the forts of Sebastopol on night of 13 April 1855, and the capture of Kertch and Kinburn. He received promotion to Midshipman after exactly two years as a Cadet prior to joining INFLEXIBLE in August 1856. During the earlier part of the 2nd China War he was a Midshipman in one of INFLEXIBLE's boats at the destruction of flotilla of war junks at Fatshan on 1 June 1857. He also served on the China Station as a Mate aboard SCOUT during 1860, and as an Acting Lieutenant aboard RENARD during the Taeping Rebe]lion in 1862. He served for two years aboard H.M.S. PEARL (July 1857 to June 1859) inclusive of the time her Naval Brigade was ashore during the Indian Mutiny, being present in the actions at Hurreah on 18 June 1858 (Mentioned in despatch by Captain E. S. Sotheby, R.N., dated 25 June 1858), at Bansee and Dummorrlahgenga 6-17 September 1858 (Mentioned in despatch by Commander H. D.Grant, Commanding his Detachment dated 20 September 1858), and at Mowee (Mentioned in despatch of Acting Lieutenant A. W. Ingles 15 October 1858). He served as a Mate aboard H.M.S. SCOUT (June 1859 to August 1860) on operations in North China 1860, during which time he received promotion to Acting Sub Lieutenant. On 24 November 1860 was appointed as an Acting Lieutenant to H.M.S. RENARD, where he was made a confirmed Lieutenant on 21 March 1861. Whilst aboard RENARD he took part in the capture of Tserpoo from Taeping rebels in April 1862, and was placed in command of a guard of thirty men at the British Legation at Yeddo, when attacked by Japanese assassins attempting to kill H.M. Charge d’Affairs, Colonel E. St J. Neale, and Edwards was highly commended for his services on that occasion. Whilst commanding a gun-boat in China he was frequently instrumental in capturing gangs of foreign piratical filibusters. After leaving RENARD in July 1863 he served for short periods in various ships, with promotion to the rank of Commander on 2 November 1874. As Commanding Officer of H.M.S. READY on East Indian Station (1878-82) he repeatedly received the thanks of the Naval Commander-in-Chief and H.M. Political Officers for valuable services rendered to the Indian Government, mainly due to his actions taken to suppress the Slave Trade. During April 1879 Edwards caused much local consternation amongst the population of Jeddah, since he accidentally killed an arab aboard a Turkish Dhow which refused to be searched, mainly because Edwards was unaware of its nationality. In April 1879 he bombarded a fort forty miles east of Aden, occupied by a rebellious Chief who had been terrorizing the local population, driving this tyrant and his followers to pastures new. Whilst aboard READY he ascended the River Irrawaddy, in the autumn of 1881, as far as the frontier of Upper Burma, proving practicability of ascending the river for large vessels, and subsequently received the approbation of their Lordships of the Admiralty. During this same Commission aboard READY he received a handsome gold chronometer, forwarded by the Minister of Marine for the Netherlands throug