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Auction: 24112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 386

Four: Colour-Sergeant F. W. Morris, Somerset Light Infantry

India General Service 1895-1908, 1 clasp Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (3288 Sergt F. W. Morris 1st Bn Som. Lt. Infy.); Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (3288 Sejt F. W. Morris, Somerset:Lt Inft); King's South Africa 1900-1902, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3288 Serjt: F. Morris. Somerset: L.I.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (3288 C.Sjt: F. W. Morris. Somerset: L.I.), contact wear overall, contact marks, overall nearly very fine (4)

Francis Walter Morris Francis Walter Morris appears to have enlisted at some stage between 1891-1892 and was stationed on the North-West Frontier in 1897. The Somerset Light Infantry where part of the 1st Brigade of the Mohmand Field Force alongside the 20th Bengal Infantry and 2/1 Gurkha Rifles under the commanded of Major-General E. R. Elles, C.B.

The formation formed part of a punitive expedition against the Mohmand tribes who had recently raided the village of Shabkadar, not far from Peshawar. Marching from Peshewar to Lakarai, the Brigade arrived on 21 September at Lakarai, after elements of the Malakand Field Force where attacked en-route from their camp at Nowshera. They proceeded to undertake 'well-conducted operation' in the Jarobi and Koda Khel Valleys, earning the Punjab Frontier 1897-98.

He was later to serve in the Anglo-Boer War, attached to the 8th Mounted Infantry and appears to have been on the Staff of that unit in 1903. Joining the Army Reserve at some stage Morris was discharged in 1912; sold together with copied research.

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