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Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including the recipient's Mention in Despatches Certificate as Acting Squadron Leader, R.A.F.V.R. (dated 2.6.1943); his Aviator's Certificate (No. 3633), leather bound with portrait photograph (dated 20.9.1916); and a British Passport (dated 12.7.1932).
D.S.C. London Gazette 1.10.1917 'For services on Patrol Duties and Submarine-searching in Home Waters'.
Mention in Despatches London Gazette 2.6.1943.
Squadron Leader Harold Marsh Morris, D.S.C., was born in London in April 1898 and educated at Repton College prior to joining the Royal Naval Air Service as a pupil Aeroplane and Seaplane Officer in August 1916. Posted to Cranwell as a Flight Sub-Lieutenant, he attended his Finishing Course at Calshot in April 1917, afterwards joining the R.N.A.S. Establishment at Westgate for his first operational posting. Allocated to Anti-Submarine duties in Home Waters, he won his D.S.C. on the occasion of the loss of Short Seaplane 3072 in the North Sea on 25.5.1917 (The Story of a North Sea Air Station refers). Morris and his Wireless Operator, A.M.2 G.O. Wright, were eventually picked up from the wreckage by Seaplane 8662 four days later, the crew of the latter receiving Albert Medals. Despite this harrowing ordeal, he was described as being 'in satisfactory condition' but admitted to Shotley Hospital with 'Oedema feet' (P.R.O. ADM273/9 refers). Advanced to Flight Lieutenant in December 1917, he received his D.S.C. from the hands of the King at Immingham in April 1918. Returning to his studies at Cambridge in mid-1919, Morris played for the University Cricket XI before settling down as an Estate Agent and Auctioneer, but maintained his cricketing interest by playing for Essex. Indeed by the late 1920s his skills were sufficient for him to be elected to the Captaincy, the player and journalist Charles Bray describing him as 'comparatively young, a brilliant fielder and a hard hitting batsman'. Bray would later have harsher words to say about his newly elected Captain but by the time of Morris' retirement in 1933, he had played over 350 innings and knocked up 7000 runs, statistics that gave him an average of 20. The advent of hostilities in 1939 found Morris back in uniform with the R.A.F.V.R. and he was Mentioned in Despatches for his work as Operations Commander at St. Mawgan, Cornwall.
D.S.C. London Gazette 1.10.1917 'For services on Patrol Duties and Submarine-searching in Home Waters'.
Mention in Despatches London Gazette 2.6.1943.
Squadron Leader Harold Marsh Morris, D.S.C., was born in London in April 1898 and educated at Repton College prior to joining the Royal Naval Air Service as a pupil Aeroplane and Seaplane Officer in August 1916. Posted to Cranwell as a Flight Sub-Lieutenant, he attended his Finishing Course at Calshot in April 1917, afterwards joining the R.N.A.S. Establishment at Westgate for his first operational posting. Allocated to Anti-Submarine duties in Home Waters, he won his D.S.C. on the occasion of the loss of Short Seaplane 3072 in the North Sea on 25.5.1917 (The Story of a North Sea Air Station refers). Morris and his Wireless Operator, A.M.2 G.O. Wright, were eventually picked up from the wreckage by Seaplane 8662 four days later, the crew of the latter receiving Albert Medals. Despite this harrowing ordeal, he was described as being 'in satisfactory condition' but admitted to Shotley Hospital with 'Oedema feet' (P.R.O. ADM273/9 refers). Advanced to Flight Lieutenant in December 1917, he received his D.S.C. from the hands of the King at Immingham in April 1918. Returning to his studies at Cambridge in mid-1919, Morris played for the University Cricket XI before settling down as an Estate Agent and Auctioneer, but maintained his cricketing interest by playing for Essex. Indeed by the late 1920s his skills were sufficient for him to be elected to the Captaincy, the player and journalist Charles Bray describing him as 'comparatively young, a brilliant fielder and a hard hitting batsman'. Bray would later have harsher words to say about his newly elected Captain but by the time of Morris' retirement in 1933, he had played over 350 innings and knocked up 7000 runs, statistics that gave him an average of 20. The advent of hostilities in 1939 found Morris back in uniform with the R.A.F.V.R. and he was Mentioned in Despatches for his work as Operations Commander at St. Mawgan, Cornwall.