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Pte. George Mordy
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Ferryhill
George Mordy is buried in Boulogne
Cpl. Albert Edward More
British Army 7th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:7 Rock Street, Finsbury Park
My great-uncle, the son of William and Eliza More, was born in Holly Street, Dalston, Hackney, Middlesex, on 24 October 1880. He served from 9 September 1914 to 2 October 1918, when he was discharged as being sick. He is listed as having served overseas. Number of badge and certificate B18556. He was a corporal at the time of his discharge.
Pte. Charles John More
British Army 6th Btn. London Regiment
from:Camberwell, London
(d.29th Sep 1916)
Charles More was born in 1893 in Camberwell, London He died in the Battle of Loos serving as a Rifleman with the 6th Battalion, London Regiment known as "the cast iron sixth". He is buried in the Maroc British Cemetery, Grenay, Northern France where he is remembered on the special memorial 18. The is also possibly a plaque in Rye Lane Chapel in Peckham, London. This is all I have at present. I am putting this on for a fellow church member to see if we can find any descendants.
Pte. G. Morear
British Army 7th Btn. Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
(d.11th Jun 1917)
Cpl. Williams Henry Moreby DCM.
1st Btn.
from:Leeds
(d.25th Oct 1914)
William Henry Moreby was a serving police officer in the Leeds City Police and enlisted at the outbreak of war. He was awarded the DCM and died on 25th October 1914 and is remembered at Ploegsteert Memorial panel 4
Pte. James Loftus Moreland
British Army 6th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Bishop Auckland
(d.16th Sep 1916)
James Loftus Moreland was the son of James Moreland and Winifred (nee Kell). He was born in August 1896. His father James had joined the 6th Durham Light Infantry in 1908 and was sent to the front with the regiment in 1915. His son joined the same regiment in 1916 as a conscript just turned 21. He joined the regiment near High Wood during the battle of the Somme. It is said that he was in the same trench as his father and when he was shot his father carried him back to a clearing station but it was too late. He died on 16th September 1916. James is buried in Adanac cemetery. His father who served until 1919 had also served during the Boar War lived until 1953.
Pte Patrick Moreland
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
My Grandfather Patrick Moreland was in the 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers and was held by the Germans in Limburg Lahn
Pte. A. P. Morgan
British Army 13th Btn. Welsh Regiment
from:East Moors, Cardiff
(d.4th January 1916)
Private Morgan succumbed to wounds and died on 4th January 1916, aged 19. He is buried in Le Treport Military Cemetery, France.
Stoker. Cecil Morgan
Royal Navy HMS Defence
from:40 Webster Street, Stockton on Tees
(d.31st May 1916)
Cecil Morgan was lost during the Battle of Jutland. He was the son of Elizabeth Ann Morgan.
Pte. Edward Morgan
British Army 4th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Wrexnam
(d.25th Jan 1915)
My grandmother's brother, Edward Morgan, was a coal miner from Stantsy Wrexham. He joined the Territorial Force pre 1914, serving with A Coy, 4th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He arrived in France on December 9th 1914 and was killed in action, aged 25, January 25th, 1915.
Pte. Edward Morgan
British Army 1/4th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers
from:Stansty, Wrexham
(d.25th January 1915)
Edward Morgan was my grandmother's brother. He was a pre-war Territorial Force soldier and had joined up with my grandfather, William Robinson and my grandfather's brother Tom Robinson, into the 4th Battalion RWF at Wrexham. Edward had volunteered for service in France and landed there 5th November 1914. All three had been coal miners at Wrexham. January 25th 1915 Edward Morgan was killed in action. He was 25 years old.
Pte. Forbes Morgan
British Army Gordon Highlanders
from:Aberdeen
Forbes Morgan was captured by the Germans and became a POW at Gefangenenlager 3, Detainee number 444, Munster III. Likely during or after 1916.
Pte. Francis Morgan
British Army 6th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusilliers
from:Warrenpoint
(d.18th Oct 1918)
Francis Morgan falsified his age and joined aged 17 and died in October 1918 aged 21.
Pte. Francis Walter Morgan
British Army 2nd Btn. Monmouthshire Regiment
from:65 Cathays Terrace, Cathays, Cardiff
(d.12th Apr 1918)
On 31st of July 1895 Francis Morgan was born at 29 Platinum Street, Roath, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales. His parents were Thomas Morgan (coal labourer) and Florence Annie Morgan, nee Ford. A casualty of the Great War, Frank Morgan has no known photograph. The 1901 Census has Frank, aged 8 years, with his parents and many of his siblings at 29 Platinum Street, Roath, Cardiff. His true age was 5 years. The 1911 Census has Frank, aged 16 years, with his parents and many of his siblings at at 2 Cecil Street, Roath, Cardiff. His occupation is given as shop boy picture frame works.
The Great War saw Frank enlisting in the 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment as a Private living at 65 Cathays Terrace, Cathays, Cardiff, an address familiar to the contributor. Circa 1918 Frank's niece (the contributor’s late mother) saw him wringing his hands in despair at the prospect of being returned to the Front as he doubted he would survive. She knew him as Uncle Frank and her childhood recollection of the encounter with him remained with her throughout life. She was aged just 4 years at the time.
On 12th April 1918 Pte. Frank Morgan (aged 22 years), 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment, was killed in action in France between the River Douve and the towns of Estaires and Furnes. This information originates from his death certificate.
Frank has no known grave and is commemorated amongst three columns of his comrades-in-arms on Panel 10 of the Ploegsteert War Memorial near Mesen (Messines), Belgium as follows;
Monmouthshire Regiment
- Lieutenant Percival R.F.
- Sergeant Edwards W.
- Sergeant Gibbs J.A.
- Sergeant Perry A.E.
- Sergeant Whatley R.
- Corporal Crabb W.
- Corporal Fletcher P.L.
- Corporal Totterdell W.C.
- L/Corporal Brimble H.C.
- L/Corporal Holmes H.
- L/Corporal Pritchard J.
- L/Corporal Thomas W.H.
- L/Corporal Underwood G.
- Private Atkinson H.
- Private Brown A.
- Private Carpenter G.
- Private Chance W.G.
- Private Clarke E.
- Private Cooper J.
- Private Davies A.G.
- Private Davies D.
- Private Day J.
- Private Dixon J.
- Private Donovan J.
- Private Doran E.
- Private Eacups F.W.
- Private Francis G.S.
- Private Gough E.
- Private Green R.W.
- Private Grinter E.G.
- Private Haywood N.
- Private Holland W.
- Private Hollinshead W.
- Private Isherwood E.
- Private James F.
- Private Jenkins E.F.
- Private Jenkins S.
- Private John E.G.
- Private Jones D.G.
- Private Jones S.H.
- Private Lambert C.
- Private Lampard H.C.
- Private Langley J.
- Private Lowe A.
- Private Magness T.
- Private Matthews E.W.
- Private Meadmore E.W.
- Private Michael H.
- Private Miles C.J.
- Private Mitchell L.J.
- Private Mooney. R.
- Private Morgan F.W.
- Private Morgan J.L.
- Private Murray C.
- Private Needs W.
- Private Nicholls F.P.
- Private Pierce E.F.
- Private Porter W.
- Private Reece W.
- Private Rogers S.T.
- Private Rowlands T.
- Private Savory H.L.
- Private Shaw J.A.
- Private Smith H.
- Private Stout J.
- Private Thomas E.
- Private Thomas J.
- Private White G.
- Private Whittaker A.
- Private Whittington H.H.
- Private Willey G.
- Private Williams E.D.
- Private Williams J.F.
- Private Wiltshire E.
- Private Withers J.
The memorial is further inscribed: "To the glory of God and to the memory of 11447 officers and men of the forces of the British Empire who fell fighting in the years 1914 - 1918 between the River Douve and the towns of Estaires and Furnes whose names are here recorded but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death."
In September 2003 a WW1 battlefield guide informed the contributor's cousin that the 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment was a Pioneer Battalion and that Francis Morgan was almost certainly killed in the Battle of the Lys, part of the German Spring Offensive of 1918. The Germans knew that the USA was about to enter the conflict with endless resources and that the war would be lost unless they took positive action. Russia was no longer in the war, so Germany used its armies from the Eastern Front to make one final push. In the few weeks of fighting that followed, they gained a large amount of ground at a truly tremendous cost in lives on both sides. It ended mainly because Germany overstretched herself and couldn't keep the Army supplied.
In October 2003 another researcher volunteered the following historical information about Frank and the 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment: "Francis would have joined the 2nd Monmouthshire's about 1916/1917. From my records he is not entitled to the 1914 Star or the the 1914-15 Star. He would have received the Victory and War medal and the family a death plaque. You are correct to say that he died at the battle of the Lys. The battalion frontage at this time was over 100 yards. This was held with only 3 companies. At dawn a large German attack took place along the front of the 88th Brigade from Steenwerck Station to Rue du Sac. The Monmouths were in an exposed position and took heavy casualties. Many men were killed by trench mortar and machine gun fire. During the afternoon the regiment was forced to retreat, but a mixed group of men, largely from B company chose to fight until they were totally surrounded. Many men were taken prisoner during the battle."
Further research has determined that on 9th of April 1918 at the Battle of The Lys (the fourth Battle of Ypres) the Germans struck the British sector in Flanders, threatening the important rail junction of Hazebrouck and the Channel ports, German troops quickly breaking through the unprepared British and one Portuguese division.
On 12th of April 1918 Field Marshall Haig forbade further retreat, galvanising British resistance with his order, Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end. It should be remembered that Frank died on the day of Field Marshall Haig's order and, despite its our and us sentiment, Haig's back was far from the wall and he was never at risk of joining his soldiers in their fight to the end.
Private Francis Walter Morgan (1895-1918) 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment you have not been forgotten.
RIP Uncle Frank.
Pte. Frank Morgan
British Army 1/4th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:21 Vaughan St., North Skelton, Yorks
(d.22nd Sep 1918)
Frank Morgan was born 3rd Jan 1893 in Yorkshire, England and died 22nd of September 1918 in France at age 27. He served with the 1/4th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. He was the son of Charles and Bessie Morgan of 21 Vaughan St., North Skelton in Cleveland, Yorkshire.
Pte. Fred Morgan
British Army 10th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Bradford
(d.15th July 1916)
Fred Morgan was wounded on the 1st of July 1916 on the Somme at the Battle of Fricourt and died from wounds on the 15th. He is buried in Forceville Cemetery. His Battalion suffered very heavy losses.
Sgt. Frederick William Morgan
British Army Royal Field Artillery
Frederick Morgan was my great-grandfather. He served in Gallipoli and lost a leg in the Battle of the Somme. He survived the war, and moved his family to Rossington near Doncaster where his sons and grandsons became miners. One of his sons, Melvyn, served in the 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards during WW2. He was captured and survived the war.
Frederick "Henry" Morgan
British Army 1st/14th (London Scottish) Btn. London Regiment
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Fred Morgan was the older brother of my grandfather, George Morgan who also served. He survived but was injured in the First World War. I remember the horrific shrapnel scars all over his body.
Spr. George Henry Morgan
British Army 500th (Wessex) Field Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Bath, Somerset
(d.2nd Dec 1918)
George Morgan died on the 2nd of December 1918, aged 24. Buried in Grave 790 in the Mikra British Cemetery, Kalameria, Greece, he was the son of Annie Morgan of 8 Nelson Place West, Bath, Somerset, and the late Herbert Morgan.
Pte. George Morgan
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Walker on Tyne
George Morgan is buried in Longbenton
Sgt Griffith James Morgan
Australian Imperial Force. C Company 37th Btn.
from:Bright, Victoria, Australia
(d.8th Jun 1917)
An extract from a letterfrom a Major at base records to Grace Morgan (Griff's Mother) in 1922:
“The only information received regarding your son’s burial is to the effect that he was buried in vicinity south-east of Messines between Bellheinm Farm and Septime Barn – 700 yards to the south, but no official advice of registration has come to hand, and I regret at this juncture it must be concluded that the grave Grave Service have not succeeded in locating his resting place. Failing the recovery and identification of his actual remains, it is the intention of authorities to perpetuate his memory by including his name regimental particulars, and date of death on a collective memorial.”
Griff Morgan was a farmer from Ovens Vale, Victoria. He enlisted on the 25th of February 1916. He embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A34 Persic on the 3rd of June 1916, he was 40 years old. He was killed in action on the 8th of June 1917 at Messines.
Pte. H. Morgan
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Harton Colliery
H Morgan was discharged in 1916 sick
Capt. Idris Aneurin Morgan
British Army 11th Btn. South Wales Borderers
from:Glyn-Gwy, Builth Wells, Breconshire.
(d.17th April 1918)
Idris Morgan was attached to the 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers when he was killed.
L/Cpl. James Morgan
British Army 8th Btn Devonshire Regiment
Pte. James Morgan
British Army 23rd (Tyneside Scottish) Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:South Shields
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Pte. John Morgan
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.19th Feb 1915)
Pte. John Noble Morgan
British Army 17th (1st Football) Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:33 Woodville Road, Mumbles, South Wales
Pte. John Morgan
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte John Wilson Morgan
British Army Irish Guards
from:Glasgow
My maternal grandfather, John Morgan, fought in the Great War. He was taken prisoner and sent to Friedrichsfeld. He was repatriated and arrived in Dover on 2nd of December 1918.
Pte. Leonard Morgan
British Army 2nd Btn. Welch Regiment
from:Cymmer, Glamorgan, Wales
From the release of the POW records I found that my grandfather, Leonard Morgan was taken prisoner at Nieuport and was originally at Merseburg camp. He was then at Wittenburg from Dec. 1916.
He had attested on 4th of August 1904, he was most likely Militia (T.A.) originally. I couldn't believe my eyes when I first viewed his details which I only looked at with a very cursory glance. Knowing the place he lived was something I happily remembered. Alas, I never knew him as he probably died in 1955 which is when I was born but the house was still the same and my Grandmother didn't pass away until she was 99. We actually lived in the North Riding of Yorkshire so only visited Wales about 3 times as a youngster (my mother was their daughter).
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