many officers and ranks distinguished themselves, such as "The Six VCs Before Breakfast" won by the Lancashire Fusiliers at Gallipoli, the Royal Marines Zeebrugge VCs were awarded by ballot, whereby those involved in the action voted for whom they deemed to merit the award. Apart from the Victoria Cross and Distinguished Service Order, Bamford also received the Russian Order of Saint Anna, 3rd Class with Swords on 5 June 1917, the French Legion of Honour on 23 May 1919, the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class in August 1921, the 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal. He later achieved the rank of major. Death and legacy Bamford died of pneumonia on 30 September 1928 aboard HMS Cumberland en route to Hong Kong, where he held the appointment of Instructor of Small Arms and Musketry Officer at Hong Kong. He was buried in the Bubbling Well Cemetery in Shanghai. A 1930s photograph in the RM Museum shows a picture of his grave and headstone. All remaining cemeteries containing "foreigners" were destroyed in the Cultural Revolution. Bubbling Well Road Cemetery is now Jing'an Park. Memorials to Bamford are in the Depot Church in Deal and there is a Bamford House in the RM Barrack at Eastney. On 3 April 2004, the Royal Marines presented a plaque in his memory to the Officials of Zeebrugge. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Marines Museum in Southsea, England. An obituary for Bamford in The Shirburnian, the Sherborne School magazine, in December 1928 noted: "He won his V.C. as a leader of the landing party from the Vindictive on the Zeebrugge Mole on St. George's Day, 1918, and he will always be remembered as one of the outstanding heroes of that most gallant adventure ... In him Sherborne mourns one of her most distinguished sons." References External links Citation shown on Flickr Burial location of Edward Bamford "China" Location of Edward Bamford's Victoria Cross "Royal Marines Museum" Sherborne School Archives 1887 births 1928 deaths People from Highgate Royal Marines officers Royal Marines personnel of World War I British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Royal Navy recipients of the Victoria Cross Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 3rd class Recipients of the Legion of Honour Deaths from pneumonia Military personnel from