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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 877

(x) Three: Private F. Morris, Worcestershire Regiment

1914-15 Star (18582 Pte. F. Morris. Worc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (18582 Pte. F. Morris. Worc. R.), good very fine (3)


Frank Morris was born around 1895 at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and enlisted at Cleobury Mortimer for the 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment at the outbreak of the Great War. He served in the Balkan theatre of operations from 25 April 1915 and was killed in action at Gallipoli on 28 June 1915. The son of William and Mary Jane Morris, of Dog House, Earls Croome, Worcester, he is commemorated on the Helles Memorial; sold with copied MIC and entry from Soldiers Died in the Great War which lists his first name as Frederick.

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Sold for
£140

Starting price
£70