The John Chidzey Collection

A scarce Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Able Seaman A. R. Morris, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, attached Howe Battalion, Royal Naval Division

Military Medal, G.V.R. (WZ-155 A.B. A. R. Morris, Howe Bn., R.N.V.R.); 1914-15 Star (WZ. 155 A. R. Morris, A.B., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (W.Z. 155 A. R. Morris, A.B., R.N.V.R.), generally good very fine (4) £600-800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The John Chidzey Collection.

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M.M. London Gazette 28 January 1918.

Arthur Reginald Morris, a draper’s assistant from Laugharne, who was born in January 1892, enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in January 1915. Posted to the Nelson Battalion in the Dardanelles in August 1915, he was quickly hospitalised with dysentery and returned home for further treatment at Plymouth Hospital at the end of October.

Remaining in the U.K. until September 1916, he was embarked for active service in France with Howe Battalion, R.N.D. at the end of that month, was once more hospitalised in February-March 1917, and won his M.M. for his ‘fine example of fearlessness as a Company Runner’ that October, during an action at Irish Farm, near Reigersburg (his service record refers). Morris saw further action as a member of Anson Battalion, attached 1st Royal Marine Battalion, before the War’s end, and was demobilised in February 1919.