A scarce ‘1947’ R.V.M. group of six awarded to Warrant Officer, later Flight Lieutenant, D. Morrison, Royal Air Force

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, all privately impressed ‘WO D Morrison’; Royal Victorian Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (W.O. D. Morrison) privately engraved; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue (W/O. D. Morrison. (512672) R.A.F.) mounted as originally worn, with six related and mounted miniature awards, generally very fine (6) £400-£500

Duncan Morrison was born in September 1911, and enlisted in the Royal Air Force in April 1930. He advanced to Warrant Officer in January 1941, and was awarded the Royal Victorian Medal for having served as part of the Royal Tour of South Africa in 1947. There were 5 awards to R.A.F. personnel, some presumably for members of the King’s Flight which had reformed the previous year with Vickers Vickings. The Royal Family had travelled to South Africa by H.M.S. Vanguard, but their transport during the visit was mainly by use of the four Vikings.

Morrison was commissioned Flying Officer in the Secretarial Branch in March 1950, and advanced to Flight Lieutenant in September 1953. He retired in December 1958, and died in Greenwich, London in 1986.

There are believed to be only a handful of R.V.M.’s awarded to R.A.F. personnel during the reign of King George VI. This is mainly as a consequence of the medal being very rarely issued to military personnel during the Second World War - there were only 13 awarded to the Army, and 3 each to the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force during that conflict.

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