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Auction: 24003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 177

(x) A Salonika operations D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Colonel F. A. S. Morgan, Royal Garrison Artillery, late Cape Mounted Rifles, who was severely wounded at Dordrecht in February 1900, and again wounded in the Great War

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut. F. A. S. Morgan, R.G.A.); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lt. F. A. S. Morgan, R.G.A.); 1914-15 Star (Capt. F. A. S. Morgan, R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. F. A. S. Morgan); Greece, Kingdom, Medal of Military Merit 1916-17, 3rd Class, very fine (7)

D.S.O. London Gazette 4 June 1917.

M.I.D. London Gazette 1 December 1916, 21 July 1917 & 5 June 1919.

Greek Medal for Military Merit 3rd Class London Gazette 21 August 1919.

Francis Alan Stewart Morgan was born in Flintshire, Wales on 12 July 1877, the son of the Rev. J. P. Morgan, and was educated at Fettes.

In common with like-minded young men of his generation, he found active employment in the Boer War, serving in the ranks of an artillery troop in the Cape Mounted Rifles, in which capacity he was severely wounded at Dordrecht on 17 February 1900. He was subsequently commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery in May 1901 and saw further action in operations in the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal in the following year.

In the period leading up to the Great War, Morgan served in mountain batteries in Quetta and Burma, and was advanced to Captain in May 1913. It was in the same rank that he served on attachment to the Royal Field Artillery in France and Belgium in the period December 1914 to March 1915. Posted to the Salonika front as a recently promoted Major in the R.G.A. at the end of the latter year, he was again wounded, and was awarded the D.S.O., in addition to being thrice 'mentioned' and decorated with the Greek Medal of Military Merit, 3rd Class.

Morgan remained in the Regular Army after the war, receiving the Brevet of Colonel in January 1931, when serving as C.O. of 18 Field Brigade, and being advanced to full Colonel in September 1932, when he was appointed C.R.A. of 49 (West Riding) Division, T.A. He was placed on the Retired List in July 1934 and died at Bishops Wickham, Essex, in March 1954.


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Estimate
£1,200 to £1,500

Starting price
£1000