Death
Bamford died in 1928 aboard the HMS Cumberland en route to Hong Kong and was buried in the Bubbling Wells Road Cemetery in Shanghai. A 1930s photograph in the RM Museum shows a picture of his grave and headstone. All cemeteries containing "foreigners" were destroyed in the Cultural Revolution and a shopping centre now stands on the site. Not one brick of the cemetery remains.
Memorials to Edward 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.
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