Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (William Sidney Morris) mounted for display in a contemporary circular wooden frame decorated with a gilded laurel wreath, nearly extremely fine £80-£100

William Sidney Morris was born in 1896, the son of W. A. Morris Esq., M.B.E., of Clarendon House, Plumsted, Kent, and was educated at the City of London School. He attested for the 19th (Public Schools) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, in September 1914, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, on 20 May 1915. He served with the Lancashire Fusiliers during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 May 1916, and was killed in action whilst attached to the 18th Battalion on 1 June 1918, during the battalion’s ‘gallant attempt at Aveluy Wood’, near Thiepval, on which date the battalion suffered casualties of 2 officers and 18 other ranks killed and 8 officer and 192 other ranks wounded or missing, and were collectively awarded five Military Crosses, a Distinguished Conduct Medal, and ten Military Medals. Morris has no known grave and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France.

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