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Auction: 6025 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 258

Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel R.F. Morrison, 19th Foot, Later 51st Foot, 16th Lancers, 7th Foot, 5th Dragoon Guards, Yeomanry Cavalry, and 5th Lancers, Crimea, 1854-56, two clasps, Alma, Sebastopol (Capt. R.F. Morrison, 19th. Foot), officially impressed; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian die, unnamed as issued, with attached loop suspension, planchet detached from clasps on first, lacquered, otherwise nearly very fine, together with the recipient´s following Commissions: - Lieutenant, 19th Regiment of Foot, dated 12.10.1852 - Captain, 51st Regiment of Foot, dated 17.8.1855 - Cornet, 16th Regiment of Light Dragoons, dated 30.3.1858 - Lieutenant, 16th Regiment of Light Dragoons, dated 24.12.1858 - Adjutant, 16th Regiment of Light Dragoons, dated 24.7.1860 - Captain, 16th Lancers, dated 10.7.1863 - Captain, 7th Regiment of Foot, dated 9.10.1863 - Captain, 5th Regiment of Dragoon Guards, dated 29.3.1864 - Adjutant, Yeomanry Cavalry, dated 13.5.1873 - Captain, 5th Lancers, dated 5.6.1875. (2) Estimate £ 400-450Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Fielding Morrison; Commissioned Ensign 19th Foot, 1849; promoted Lieutenant 1852; Captain 1854; transferred 51st Foot, 1855; transferred Cornet 16th Lancers, 1858; Lieutenant 24.12.1858; Captain 1863; transferred Captain, 7th Foot 9.10.1863; transferred Captain 5th Dragoon Guards, 1864; placed on half pay 8.8.1868; Adjutant Denbighshire Yeomanry Cavalry 13.5.1873; Captain 5th Lancers, 1875; Major 1877; Lieutenant-Colonel 1881. Lieutenant-Colonel Morrison had two sons, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Hobart Morrison and Major Colquhoun Grant Morrison. Clasps confirmed.

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