A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners

Six: Chief Bosun D. J. Morris, Merchant Navy, late Northumberland Fusiliers and Lincolnshire Regiment
1914-15 Star (9938 Pte. D. J. Morris, North’d. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (9938 Pte. D. J. Morris, North’d. Fus.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; War Medal 1939-45, together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘232098’, this lacking its reverse pin, generally very fine or better (7)
£80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners.

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David John Morris, who was born in Swansea in March 1881, enlisted in the Northumberland Fusiliers in January 1915, and first went out to France with the 2nd Battalion that March. Subsequently transferring to the Lincolnshire Regiment, he was discharged on account of sickness in August 1917. Finding employment in the Mercantile Marine after the Great War, he served as Chief Bosun of the tanker San Ubaldo off June Beach, Normandy, in June 1944; sold with brief details.