Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Collar-Maker Corporal G. H. Morris, Royal Engineers

South Africa 1877-79, no clasp (9642. Col: Mak: Corpl. G. H. Morris. R.E.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (9642 Artfr. Corpl. G. H. Morris. Fd. Park, R.E.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (9642. Artifr. Corpl. G. H. Morris. R.E.); Khedive’s Star 1882, named in reverse centre (9642 Artfr. Corpl. G. H. Morris. Fd. Park, R.E.) together with a silver A.T.A. (India) medal, this lacking suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, good fine (5) £360-£440

George Henry Morris was born in the Parish of St Mary’s, Woolwich, Kent, and enlisted into the Royal Engineers at Aldershot as a Driver on 20 February 1869, aged 21 years 3 months, a collar maker by trade. Appointed Collar-maker in June 1875, he advanced to Collar-maker Corporal in September 1877. He served abroad at the Cape of Good Hope from April 1879 to January 1880, and in Egypt from August to October 1882. Awarded the L.S. & G.C. medal with Gratuity in 1887, he was discharged on 22 February 1890. Sold with copied discharge papers.