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Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, impressed naming (W. H. Morrison. P.O. 1st Cl. H.M.S. Amphion.) good very fine £100-£140

William Henry Morrison was bon in 1859 at Cromane, County Kerry, Ireland and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Impregnable on 16 October 1874. He was advanced to Able Seaman, H.M.S. Royal Adelaide on 19 July 1879, and to Leading Seaman, H.M.S. Cambridge on 1 December 1885. He was further advanced to 2nd Captain of the Fore Top and Petty Officer First Class, H.M.S. Royalist, on 5 March 1889, and was appointed Acting Chief Petty Officer, H.M.S. Vivid I, on 25 May 1896, being confirmed in that rate on 25 May 1897, when serving in H.M.S. Devastation. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in March 1892. Shore pensioned in October 1892, he joined the Royal Fleet Reserve and was recalled for war service in August 1914, serving in H.M.S. Vivid I until demobilised on 2 April 1919.

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