Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private H. Morrison, East Kent Regiment, later Royal Fusiliers, who was wounded in the leg in October 1917, and was killed in action on the Western Front on 23 August 1918

British War and Victory Medals (20943 Pte. H. Morrison. E. Kent R.); Memorial Plaque (Herbert Morrison) slight staining to VM, otherwise good very fine (3) £100-£140

Herbert Morrison was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, and attested for the East Kent Regiment at Tonbridge, Kent. He served with the 3rd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, before transferring to the 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, and was killed in action on 23 August 1918. He is buried in Railway Cutting Cemetery, Courcelles-le-Comte, France.

A contemporary newspaper cutting contains the following obituary:
‘Private Herbert Victor Morrison was killed in action on the 23rd August. An officer, writing to Mrs. Morrison, said her son died in a brave attack on a village, which the Germans were strongly defending, and which, later in the day, was successfully captured. Private Morrison’s own platoon officer was badly wounded in the same attach. Private Morrison joined the Buffs in January 1917. He was afterwards transferred to the Royal Fusiliers, and went out to France. In October 1917 he was badly wounded in the leg and returned to England, where he remained until 3rd June this year when he again went to the Western Front.’

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