Orders, Decorations and Medals

Eight: Lieutenant Commander T. E. R. Morphy, Straits Settlements (Malaya) Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, formerly R.N.V.R

British War and Victory Medals (Mid., R.N.V.R.); Mercantile Marine War Medal (Tudor E. R. Morphy); 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals; Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, reverese officially dated ‘1946’ and additionally neatly engraved ‘Lt. Cdr. (L.) T. E. R. Morphy, V.R.D., R.N.V.R.’, the Second War medals named identically to the last, mounted loose style as worn, generally good very fine or better (8) £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Richard Schweder Collection of Medals for Campaigns in Malaysia.

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Lieutenant Commander Tudor Edward Richard Morphy was born in April 1899 and educated at Rossall School. He was commissioned into the R.N.V.R. in March 1918, retiring in 1920 with the rank of Sub. Lieutenant. In 1926 he joined the Colonial Enginering Service in Malaya, retiring as Deputy Director of Electricity in Malaya in 1950. Whilst in in Malaya he served with the Malay States Volunteer Regiment 1927-38, joining the Malayan R.N.V.R. on its formation that year and serving with it until his retirement in 1946. During the Second World War he had served aboard the Laburnum and it would appear that he escaped the fall of Singapore, as in May 1943 he was serving at Merlin, a Royal Naval Air Station at Donibristle, Scotland, before returning to the Far East in 1945. On his retirement the following year he moved to County Wicklow in Ireland.