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Auction: 22103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals VII - e-Auction
Lot: 448

'Detailed Lieut. Woodford and 16 bombers for relief of Essex bombers at Quarrirs. Attack by German Bombers at Quarrirs 10.15 was beaten off with assistance of our 2 M.G.s. under Capt: Jay. Relieved by 11th Middlesex bombers. Casualties Cpl. St. Croix, Pte. Morgan, and one other bomber killed'

War Diary of the 7th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, refers.

Four: Private A. L. Morgan, 'B' Company, 7th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, who was killed in a German bombing raid in the aftermath of the Actions at the Hohenzollern Redoubt on 21 October 1915

1914-15 Star (G-1028 Pte A. L. Morgan. R. Suss:R.); British War and Victory Medals (G-1028 Pte. A. L. Morgan. R. Suss. R.), all campaign medals in named boxes of issue; Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Aubrey Lloyd Morgan), with slip of issue, in envelope of issue, edge bruising, very fine (4)

Aubrey Lloyd Morgan was born at Cowbridge, Glamorgan in 1894, the son of Thomas and Emily Morgan of The Bridge, Cowbridge. Enlisting at Cowbridge with the 7th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment Morgan entered the war in France on 31 May 1915. He served with them until being killed in action in the trenches to the south east of the Hohenzollern Redoubt on 21 October 1915. Oddly the Battalion War Diary records his death as occurring on 20 October. He is commemorated upon the Loos Memorial; sold together with copied research including M.I.C., Commonwealth War Graves details, and census data along with original medal slips of issue and a note of condolence from the recipients Sergeant.

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