Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Company Sergeant Major R. F. Morris, Wiltshire Regiment

King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (1540 Serjt., Wilts. Regt.); 1914-15 Star (3-765 O.S. Mjr. (sic), Wilts. R.) first with contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £35-45

Robert Freeze Morris was born in Gosport, Hampshire and attested for the Wiltshire Regiment in July 1886, aged 14 years; serving for the first two years as a Boy and for the second two as a Drummer. He served with his regiment in the Boer War and was entitled to the Queen’s medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Transvaal and Wittebergen and the King’s medal with two clasps. He was awarded the Army L.S.& G.C. in 1905 and was discharged having completed his second period of engagement on 11 July 1907. He was recalled from the Army Reserve in September 1914 and with the Wiltshire Regiment entered the France / Flanders theatre of war on 19 July 1915. Sold with a quantity of copied service papers and other research.