Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Private W. Morrison, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, who was taken prisoner at the Fall of Crete on 2 June 1941, and later served with the Royal Military Police in Korea

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (6087816 Pte. W. Morrison. Bedfs. & Herts. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (22259957 Pte. W. Morrison R.M.P.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, contact marks,generally good very fine (6) £300-£400

W. Morrison attested for the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, and served with the 1st Battalion pre-War in both Egypt and in Palestine on internal security duties. In March 1941 his battalion deployed to Greece, initially disembarking in Athens, and was then deployed for the defence of the island of Lemnos; however, Morrison was unusually detached for duty in Crete, and was captured and taken Prisoner of War on Crete on 2 June 1941, following the German parachute invasion of the island on 20 May 1941. Held in captivity for the rest of the War, latterly at Stalag 344, at Lamsdorf, Poland, he would most likely have experienced the ‘Lamsdorf Death March’ in early 1945, when the prisoners were marched away from the advancing Russian Army. Following the Second World War he was transferred to the Army Reserve, but was recalled for the Korean War, and served as a Private in 28 Brigade, Provost Section, Royal Military Police.

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