Auction Catalogue

21 September 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1272

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21 September 2001

Hammer Price:
£410

A Great War M.C. group of five awarded to Major R. F. Morkill, Royal Engineers

Military Cross
, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (Lieut.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.); Defence Medal; together with two renamed medals to the same recipient, comprising: Queen’s South Africa, 1 clasp, Cape Colony; Natal 1906, with clasp, both inscribed ‘Sgt. R. F. Morkill, Can. Mtd. Rifles’, generally very fine or better (7) £300-350

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1917.

M.I.D.
London Gazette16 March 1919.

Rupert Falshaw Morkill served in France and Belgium from April 1915 until July 1917 with the Royal Engineers.