Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.C. and Bar group of four awarded to Captain F. A. Morrell, East Kent Regiment, late Straits Settlements Volunteer Force

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed ‘Capt., Presented by H.M. The King at Buckingham Palace’, with Second Award Bar; British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Volunteer Force Long Service (India & Colonies), G.V.R. (Captain, M.C., S.S.V.F.) good very fine (4) £900-1100

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918: 2nd Lieut./Acting Captain, East Kent Regt.

Bar to M.C. London Gazette 16 September 1918: Temp. Lieut./Acting Captain, East Kent Regiment. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When the enemy had penetrated between our defences, he organised and carried out with his company two counter attacks, driving them back. Two days afterwards, seeing that the flank of the Battalion on his right was exposed, he immediately counter attacked and improved the situation, being severely wounded during the operation.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 18 December 1917.

Frederick Alexander Morrell served as a Lance-Corporal in the Malay Straits Volunteer Rifles at Singapore 1914-15. He served in France as a Captain in the East Kent Regiment from 12 April 1916.