A Fine Collection of Medals to the South Wales Borderers

Three: Private B. Morris, 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers, who was wounded in action whilst serving with the 1/4th (Denbighshire) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers

1914 Star (8164 Pte B. Morris. S. Wales Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (8164 Pte. B. Morris. S. Wales Bord.); Silver War Badge, reverse officially numbered ‘B94240’; with Tallyn, Pontypridd Tribute Medal, silver, reverse engraved ‘Pte. B. Morris’, with 1914-1916 top riband bar, and chain fob enclosing a photograph of recipient in uniform in obverse and a young boy in reverse, this glazed and cracked, medals with contact marks overall, nearly very fine (lot)
£120-£160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Medals to the South Wales Borderers.

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Bertram Morris was a native of Pontypridd, enlisted in the South Wales Borderers in July 1903, and served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion in the French theatre of war from 13 November 1914. He subsequently transferred to the 1/4th (Denbighshire) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers and was wounded whilst serving with them. Morris was discharged in January 1919, and entered into the Royal Hospital, Chelsea aged 63 in 1948.

Sold with copied research.