Orders, Decorations and Medals

A very rare Toski group of three to Lieutenant-Colonel R. E. R. Morse, Royal Army Medical Corps

Egypt 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Toski 1889 (Surgeon, A.M. Dept.); Turkey, Order of Medjidie, 3rd Class neck badge, silver, gold and enamel, with arabic stamp marks, slight enamel damage; Khedive’s Star, undated with Tokar clasp,unnamed, slightly pitted, generally very fine (3) £800-1000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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Ex Upfill-Brown Collection, B.D.W. 4 December 1991, lot 284.

Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Edward Ricketts Morse was born in 1856 and commenced his military career at Gosport in 1881 as a Surgeon Captain. He first saw active service in the Egyptian operations of 1882 and returned to the same theatre in 1887, following a posting to the West Coast of Africa. In 1889 he was present at the actions of Arguin and Toski, subsequently earning the Toski clasp, being mentioned in despatches and awarded the Order of the Medjidie. He went on retired pay in 1911 but was re-employed during the Great War on the R.A.M.C. Special Reserve. Only 2 single clasp Toski awards to Officers.