Pair: Attributed to Major S. F. Morson, Leicestershire Regiment

Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, in card box of issue; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial, reverse officialy dated ‘1949’, with two Additional Award Bars, the first G.VI.R. dated 1949, the second E.II.R. dated 1956, with loose integral top riband bar, nearly extremely fine (2) £90-£120

Sold together with copy research attributing these to Major Sydney Francis Morson, 5th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, who was later appointed Lieutenant and Quartermaster (London Gazette 25 November 1938). He served in the ill-fated Norway expedition of 1940 and was one of only six of the Battalion’s 26 officers to escape.

Various copy local newspaper articles relating to Morson included, but no original paperwork.