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St. Andrew’s Ambulance Association Long Service (W. Morris), together with London Midland and Scottish Railway (Ambulance Brigade) Long Service, in gold, the reverse engraved, ‘W. Morris, 1916’; together with an attractive gold and enamel presentation piece (Hallmarks for Birmingham, 1915), in the form of a Maltese Cross with inter-arm laurel decoration, the obverse with engraved central shield, ‘Won by William Morris’, and the plain reverse engraved, ‘Presented by Mrs. H. Walker to Best Section Member, 1915, Dundee West Ambulance Class’, 23mm. by 35mm. (including integral suspension loop), in a London retailer’s leather box; and a miniature gold ‘20 Years’ long service clasp (Hallmarks for Birmingham, 1902), good very fine and better (4) £120-140
William Morris was onetime employed by the Caledonian Railways Dundee West Company as a porter-pointsman. Presented with his St. Andrew’s Association “3-Year Star” in March 1907, he went on to receive the Long Service Medal in March 1918. Morris resigned from the Association in 1934.
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