The M.S.M. group of five medals to Warrant Officer Thomas Oliver Morley

The M.S.M. group of five medals to Warrant Officer Thomas Oliver Morley, Royal Engineers: 1914-15 Star (26724 SPR: T.O. MORLEY. R.E.); British War Medal 1914-20 and Victory Medal (26724 2 CPL. T. O. MORLEY. R.E.); Regular Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, George V (1844723 SJT. T. O. MORLEY. R.E.); Meritorious Service Medal, George VI (1844723 W.O. CL. 2. T. O. MORLEY. R.E.), display mounted, edge bruising, near very fine. [5]

A blacksmith from Portsmouth, Morley enlisted in the R.E. in August 1914 aged 23 years, and served in France with 23rd Field Company until sustaining a wound to the head at Loos, 29/09/1915, and being hospitalized to the U.K. He returned to active service in Salonika in January 1916, where he contracted malaria. In the inter-war period he served in Dublin and India, received his LS.G.C. in 1933, and his M.S.M. between 1949 and 1953. Offered with research.