Orders, Decorations and Medals

WWI Interest Hallmarked Silver Pill/Powder box, a silver hinged circular example (Birmingham 1909) the lid is engraved ‘Bella Sullivan’ the base engraved ‘2nd Lieut. Sandy Morris/Black Watch/Fampoux France/Near Arras/23rd April 1917’, the inside retains its original gilt wash, sold with further research details, the box with some small dents
£40-60

2nd Lieutenant Alexander Ramsay Morris, Black Watch entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 3 August 1916. As a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st/7th Battalion The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), Morris died (most probably killed in action) between 23 and 25 April 1917, aged 23 years. He was buried in Brown’s Copse Cemetery, Roeux, memorial II C 58. He was the son of George Wilson Spence Morris and the late Cecilia F. Morris, of ‘Broadleys’, Crail, Fife. With copied m.i.c. and casualty details.