Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Captain R. D. Morris, Royal Engineers

1914 Star, with copy clasp (Lieut., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 5th Class breast badge by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, first and third gilded, mounted for wear, extremely fine (4) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of British Groups with Foreign Awards.

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Order of the Nile, 5th Class London Gazette 4 December 1925. ‘Capt., R.E. (Reserve of Officers) Assistant Director of Works, Irrigation Department, Ministry of Public Works.’

Richard Douglas Morris gained the degree of B.Sc. at the City and Guilds College. As a Cadet in the University of London O.T.C. he was appointed a Lieutenant (on probation) in the Corps of Royal Engineers (London Gazette 4 July 1911). As a Lieutenant in the R.E. he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 16 August 1914. Promoted to Captain, he latterly served with the Works Directorate. Post-war, as a Captain in the R.E. (Reserve of Officers), he served in Egypt and was awarded the Order of the Nile 5th Class as Assistant Director of Works in the Irrigation Department of the Ministry of Public Works. With copied m.i.c., which confirms clasp and copied gazette extracts.