Description

Offered is a WW1 medal trio and cap badge to Private High Morgan, who died of disease in 1916, whilst serving with the 2nd Battalion of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers.

1914 – 15 Star, impressed named 11833 PTE H. MORGAN. K.P.SCO:BORD:; British War and Victory Medals (1914 – 18), impressed named 11833 H. MORGAN. K.O.SCO.BORD. Court mounted. Comes with copies of: 1911 census, M.I.C., medal rolls, soldiers effects; pension extract and Commonwealth War Graves certificate.

Hugh Morgan was born in 1896 in Liverpool. It is possible that he is the Hugh Morgan recorded on the 1911 Liverpool census. This records him as working as a junior clerk for a shipping office in Liverpool. His mother being a widow (note the mothers name being Beatrice on 1911 census however and pension named to his mother Elizabeth).

He enlisted at Berwick, Northumberland, probably early 1914. He landed in France on the 5/12/1914, posted to the 2nd Battalion K.O.S.B (probably as a reinforcement as the Battalion landed 15/8/1914).

At some stage Morgan was medically evacuated to England and died of disease on the 14/7/1916 in London. He is commemorated at the Kensal Green (St. Mary’s) Roman Catholic Cemetery.