Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (365495 A. Morris, O.S. 1, H.M.S. Victory) contact marks, very fine £20-30

Arthur Morris was born at Christchurch, Hampshire in March 1899 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy Domestic at the shore establishment Excellent in January 1907, aged just 7 years. By the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he was still serving ashore as an Officer’s Steward 2nd Class, but immediately afterwards joined his first seagoing appointment, the destroyer H.M.S. Firedrake, in which ship he served until October 1917: he consequently witnessed his first naval engagement at Heligoland Bight in 1914, aged just 15 years. By the War’s end Morris had been advanced to Officer’s Steward 1st Class and he was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in April 1923.

The recipient was born on 6 March 1890, was aged 16 years when he entered the Royal Navy in January 1907 and aged 24 at the Heligoland Bight engagement