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Auction: 6025 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 261

Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Maj: C.G. Morrison. Rl: Drgns:), extremely fine, together with the following documentation, photographs &c.: - Commissions appointing Colquhoun Grant Morrison Sub Lieutenant and Lieutenant in the Militia Forces, both dated 29.1.1877 - Royal Military College Half Yearly Report, dated 8.8.1878 - Royal Military College Certificate showing the recipient proficient in six subjects, dated Jan.1879 - Commission appointing Colquhoun Grant Morrison Second Lieutenant, 19th Foot dated 22.1.1879 - Letters detailing the transfer of the recipient from the 19th Foot to the Rifle Brigade, dated 1879 - Examination for Promotion to Captain Special Certificate, dated July 1883, and related newspaper cutting - Letter to the recipient advising him that there is no immediate prospect of promotion, dated 18.12.1888 - Various invoices and receipts for items of uniform - Three Portrait Photographs of the recipient in Rifle Brigade Dress Estimate £ 300-350Major Colquhoun Grant Morrison, born 1860, Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 19th Foot, 22.1.1879, but never joined; transferred 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade; Lieutenant 1881; transferred Captain 5th Dragoon Guards, 1889; Instructor Royal Military College, 1891; transferred 1st Dragoons; Major 1897; Appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Jersey, 1899.

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