Queens South Africa Medal + 2 to Morrison Cheshire Regiment.

Queens South Africa Medal with the Cape Colony and Orange Free State (also entitled to the SA 1901 clasp) correctly named to 1981 Corporal Philip Morrison of the 4th Volunteer battalion the Cheshire regiment.
Philip Morrison was born in Macclesfield around 1874. As a young man he was employed as a labourer in the Macclesfield area. He enlisted into the 4th Cheshire regiment on the 24th February 1891 and the next year he was promoted to corporal.
The 4th battalion must have served along side the 2nd battalion in South Africa, as I cannot find any regimental history for the 4th during the Boer war, however his Boer War medal roll confirms he served with the 4th battalion. He was promoted to Sergeant in 1901 and discharged in 1902. He is not entitled to the Kings South Africa medal, but he is entitled to the South Africa 1901 clasp, this is missing or more likely he never received it.
He married Mary in 1891 and had six children, employed as a general labourer. Sadly, their daughter Margaret died in December 1914.
Philip enlisted once again into the Cheshire regiment, the 11th battalion in 1914, he lied about his age and made himself ten years younger. He was posted to France in the April of 1917 and then transferred to the 9th battalion a month later in the field. He was admitted to hospital, sick in August the same year and I think, although not old by todays standards, he was probably struggling with the conditions on the western front. He was transferred to the Labour corps and renumbered in December 1917. He was discharged in 1919 and was awarded the 1914/15 star, British war and victory medal.
Sadly Philip Morrison died in 1924 at the age of 49 in Macclesfield.
This medal is in very good condition and comes with a whole heap of copied paperwork including his Boer war attestation papers, Boer war medal rolls, census records, WW1 medal index card, WW1 service records and death registration etc.

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