Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914 Star (9404 Pte. G. Morris. S. Wales Bord.) good very fine £80-£120

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

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George Morris was born in Bristol and attested for the South Wales Borderers in Pontypridd in 1906. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914, and was killed in action at Vendresse on 26 September 1914.

In late September 1914 at the Battle of the Aisne, the South Wales Borderers had come to a halt at Vendresse. Here a period of heavy fighting had seen the battalion withdraw to a ridge overlooking the Chivy Valley where woods offered cover for the Germans to mass for attacks. On 26 September 1914 the Germans launched a heavy, sustained assault on the Borderers lines leading at times even to hand-to-hand fighting. Losses on both sides were heavy with 4 Officers and 86 other ranks killed, 3 Officers and 95 other ranks wounded, and 12 other ranks missing.

Morris has no known grave and is commemorated on La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, France.

Sold with copied Medal Index Card and other research.