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A/WOII. George Henry Morrell
British Army 250th Seige Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Wirral
L/Cpl. Jonathan Morrell
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:115 Adelaide St, South Shields
L-Cpl Morrell served with 18th DLI, he was initally buried at Map Reference 36A.21.d.5.4. In a marked grave, his remains were recovered in 1919 and he was reburied in Grand Beaumart British Cemetery. his wife Mrs J A Morrell of 115 Adelaide St, South Shields, requested the headstone inscription Dearly loved by his wife and little daughter/
L/Cpl. Joseph Morrell MM.
British Army 1/5th Battalion Notts & Derby Regiment
from:Ripley, Derbyshire
(d.3rd October 1918)
Joseph Morrell served as a Lance Corporal in the 1/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters. He was the son of George Morrell, of Ripley, Derbyshire. He was billeted at Tollesbury, Essex in 1915 (presumably when the unit was stationed in nearby Braintree) where he met his wife Eva Kate Morrell (formerly Frost). They had one son, Joseph Morrell, named after his father, born in 1916. (I don't know if he ever got the chance to meet him)
He went to France in July 1916 and was killed by a shell on the 3rd October 1918, aged 25, while attacking the village of Ramicourt during the Battle of the Beaurevoir Line In a letter to his vicar, his commanding officer wrote: "I knew him well. He was a good soldier, brave in action and always willing and able" He was buried in the Ramicourt British Cemetery, Aisne, France.
He was posthumously awarded the Military Medal for "Conspicuous bravery and gallant conduct when in Lewis Gun" during the battle of St Quentin Canal on the 29th September 1918. He is mentioned in the book, "C Company, 1/5 Sherwood Foresters in the Battles of the 100 days" by C.N.Littleboy
Pte Robert G.E.S. Morren
British Army 9th Battalion Gordon Highlanders
(d.28th Mar 1918)
Pte. Adam Morrice
British Army 2nd Btn. Gordon Highlanders
(d.10th Oct 1917)
Adam Morrice was one of four brothers who enlisted in WW1. Two other brothers James and John both died in action. The fourth brother Robert was wounded but survived and also enlisted in WW2
Gnr. Louis Morrice
British Army 1st Lancashire Brigade Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Toxteth
(d.10th Aug 1914)
Liverpool Weekly Mercury, 15th August 1914
A Cheshire Tragedy.
The mysterious death of a gunner in the Lancashire Brigade Royal Garrison Artillery whilst engaged in military duties at Bidston on Monday night formed the subject of an inquest held on Wednesday in the Reading-room, Bidston Village, by M J C Bate, the West Cheshire coroner. The proceedings lasted for nearly two hours, and ended in the jury returning an open verdict. Major Stitt, representing the Lancashire Brigade, was present during the inquiry.
The victim of the tragedy is Louis Morrice, aged twenty, who had been a labourer, and ha resided with his mother and stepfather at 34, Upper Hill-street, Liverpool, until Wednesday of last week, when he joined the artillery. Since that time deceased, with others, had been doing garrison duty at Bidston Hill. The evidence of various members of the corps was to the effect that about midnight on Monday and alarm was raised consequent upon the report of a sentry that a suspected person was loitering in the vicinity of the gun park. The guard turned out, and some shots were fired. The, under the direction of Lieutenant Cook, the men, split up into parties, were moved into the fir wood in extended order with the object of searching for the trespasser. Morrice was one of a party of five who made their way through the thick undergrowth towards the railing dividing the wood from Eleanor-road. When within two or three yards of the railing deceased's comrades saw a flash in front, followed by a retort. Morrice, who was nearest the railings, staggered, cried "Oh! I am shot." and fell to the ground. It was found that a bullet had passed through his body, and although medical aid was promptly summoned, the young soldier died a few minutes after the shot had been fired.
Bombardier Beamish said that when the alarm was given he ran to the gun park. "There he is," pointing towards a man who was on the wall. Witness ran to seize the man, but he clambered over the wall into the ferns. He challenged the man, but got no response. Witness was the ferns moving. He ordered some of his men to fire, which they did. Lieutenant Cook then arrived, and ordered the men to beat the wood. When witness's men fired, the wood was quite clear so far as soldiers were concerned. The men in the deceased's party were not in complete agreement as to the direction from which the shot which killed Morrice came. One said he saw a flame in front, about ten yards outside the railings. Another said the flash came from the right-hand bottom corner of the railings near the bushes. His opinion was that the shot which killed Morrice came from the wood. A third member of the party said the shot came from the road and not from the wood. This witness did not see anything moving. On the question whether Morrice's rifle had been fired inadvertently through the trigger catching in a twig, it was pointed out by Major Stitt that this was unlikely, as the trigger would require a 6lb poll.
Lieutenant A E Cook said he gave strict instructions that no one was to fire without challenging. The deceased could not have been in front of any portion of the line owing to the position in which witness had placed his men. Witness added that when he came back to the gun park he saw a man standing close up to the ammunition, and when challenged he ran away. Dr Thomas Brown, captain in the Royal Army Medical corps attached to the Lancashire Brigade, deposed to being called to the deceased. The bullet had gone through the lower part of his body, entering on the right side and coming out on the left near the spine. It was a clean wound, and must have been caused by a nickel bullet - either a service bullet or a bullet from a heavy automatic pistol. It was impossible to distinguish which. From the relative position of the points of entrance and exit he assumed that the bullet was fired from a spot lower than where the man was standing. Judging by the size and the condition of the wound, he thought the shot had been fired at a distance of about twenty yards. Major Stitt told the coroner that there certainly had been men hanging about the garrison "I saw a man myself later on in the night standing beside the ammunition on the Liverpool side of the gun park." The verdict of the jury was that death had been caused by a bullet, but there was no evidence to show by whom the shot had been fired. The jury expressed sympathy with the relatives of the deceased.
Ord. Maxwell Hill Morrice
Royal Navy Crystal Palace Depot RN RNVR
(d.19th Jun 1916)
Maxwell Hill Morrice served at the RN Depot Crystal Palace. He is reported to have died from illness and is buried in Allendale Cemetery, Aberdeen, Scotland Grave plan G.53. He died age 31 on the 19th June 1916. He is remembered at Jarrow Library and Allendale Cemetery, Aberdeen.
Maxwell was born in Jarrow 1885, son of John and Jessie Morrice nee Haslehurst. In the Scottish 1901 census the family is living at 4 New Pier Road, Aberdeen with John (51) and Jessie(46). Children are Minnie 20, Elsie 18, David 16, Maxwell 15, a clerk, Lizzie 13 John 11 and Alexander 7.
Maxwell seems to have continued in the RNVR Home Service, but was not drafted into any of the Royal Naval Division's Battalion which fought as infantry in Europe and Gallipoli. Little is known of his Home postings and duties other than he was at the Royal Naval Depot Crystal Palace at the time of his fatal illness and probably died in a nearby Military Hospital.
VAD. Morris
Voluntary Aid Detachment No. 46 Stationary Hospital
L/Cpl Albert E Morris
Army 1/2nd North Midland Field Company Royal Engineers
(d.27 April 1915)
A/Cpl. Albert James Morris MM.
British Army 1st Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
from:Winchester
Pte. Alfred Edwin Morris
Royal Army Medical Corps 28th Field Ambulance
from:Stourbridge Road, Lye, Worcestershire
My father, Edwin Morris, later Archbishop of Wales, wrote this:
I was posted to the 73rd General Hospital at Trouville and given the job of telephone orderly. As I had never used the telephone before, this was an odd appointment, but I soon got the hang of it.
In the early autumn of 1918 we had a lot of fatal cases of influenza at the hospital. Big strong men would die of this within a very few days, and the doctors seemed to be at a loss how to deal with it. Somehow it seemed worse that soldiers should die of a civilian illness in a safe area than of wounds on the field of battle.
It was while I was telephone orderly at the 73rd General Hospital that rumours of a possible armistice began to circulate, and on the morning of November 11th I received the official message that at 11 a.m. the hostilities would cease. I took it to the Colonel, who could hardly believe it. He rang through to confirm it, and then authorized the release of the news to the hospital. The effect was magical. The hospital began to empty immediately. Discipline went to the winds and patients who had been confined to bed poured out and went down to the town in their hospital blue, where they were given free drinks in the estaminets. It was three or four days before we got them all back.
Stker 1st Cl. Alfred Walter "Mont" Morris
Royal Navy HMS Larkspur
from:69 Horninglow North, Burton on Trent
Alfred Morris served aboard HMS Larkspur from 18th November 1918 to 12th March 1919.
Stk1. Alfred Walter "Mont" Morris
Royal Navy HMS Skirmisher
Alfred Morris served aboard HMS Skirmisher as a stoker, between 7th of October 1913 and 18th of Sepetmber 1918. His best mate aboard was another stoker, William Vasil Martin known as Pincher.
Pte. Arthur Edwin Morris
British Army 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry
from:Bath
(d.1st July 1916)
Pte. Arthur Morris
British Army 7th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment
from:Heath Hayes
Arthur Morris is my father born 17th of June 1898. His age at enlistment was 19 years and 1 month and he served duration of WW1, and was posted to the 2nd Battalion In 1920 he served in Ireland as a paid Lance Corporal. He was discharged on the 15th of December 1921 and returned to coal mining
He also served in WW2 as head warden also was a signaller teacher to Air Force cadets and a Scout Rover leader He died April 1961 aged 62.
Cpl. Charles Morris
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Charles William Morris
British Army 7th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Birmingham
Pte. Daniel Morris
British Army Coldstream Guards
from:Wakefield, West Yorkshire
I know Daniel Morris served in the Coldstream Guardss during WWI. I'm not sure about the 4th Battalion Pioneers, but I suspect this to be correct as he was a miner before the war.
Cpl. David Robert Morris
British Army 24th (Denbighshire Yeomanry) Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Denbigh
(d.4th Sept 1918)
David was the son of Edward and Phoebe Morris, Walmer Road, Birkenhead; husband of Gwendoline Hayes Morris, 73 Love Lane, Denbigh.
Pte. David Morris
British Army 13th Btn. Welsh Regiment
from:Talgarth
(d.27th May 1916)
Cpl. Donald Alexander Sinclair Morris
British Army C Coy. 15th Btn. Royal Scots
from:Edinburgh
(d.26th Aug 1917)
Donald Morris was born in Edinburgh in 1885 to David and Isabella Morris (nee MacKay) and was the 5th of 8 children. He was a soldier in the 15th Royal Scots, which was formed at Edinburgh in September 1914 by the Lord Provost. He was killed on the 26th of August 1917 in France and his name is listed on the Thiepval Memorial.
Donald's younger brother Thomas Anderson Morris (320295), born in 1894 in Edinburgh, was also killed in France on the 24th of March 1918 and is buried in the Doullens Communal Cemetery. He was a soldier in the Royal Army Medical Corps and died of wounds in the 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital, Doullens, France. The commanding officer of the hospital was Lt Col John McCrae, who wrote 'In Flanders Fields'.
Cpl. Eric Salthouse Morris
British Army 3/5th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Blackpool
Pte. Ernest Edward Morris
British Army 8th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Wingham, Kent
(d.9th March 1918)
Pte George Henry Morris
British Army 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Hull
(d.26th August 1918)
Cpl. Harold Morris
British Army 6th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment
(d.9th Feb 1917)
Researching Harold Morris on behalf of the family and out of respect and gratitude for my relative. We haven't got any photos as he came from a poor background living in Bilston. If any one finds any photos of the 6th Battalion South Staffs pre 9th Feb 17 I would be very grateful if you could contact me. It would be cracking to put a face to the uncle my grandad never knew but heard alot about.
Sjt. Henry Morris
British Army 2nd Btn. A Coy. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.21st Feb 1915)
Pte. Herbert William Ellery Morris MM.
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 2nd Otago Btn.
from:Feilding, NZ.
Herbert Morris was my Grandfather, he was was a company runner attached to the 2nd Otago Battalion. He was wounded in September 1918 and awarded the Military Medal for actions on the 12th of October 1918 at Passendale. Herbert survived the war and trained troops in New Zealand during the Second World War.
Major J Morris DSO.
British Army 50th Battalion Machine Gun Corps
Major J Morris DSO was the commanding Officer of 50th Battalion,Machine Gun Corps in 1918.
Sapper James Morris
British Army 257 Tunnelling Coy Royal Engineers
from:Five Rows, sirhowy, Tredegar Mon
(d.8th Aug 1916)
Sapper James Morris is my grand father and was a member of the 257 Tunnelling Co. According to his CO Capt Stanley de la Mere he died on 8th August 1916 while attending to a crater in no man's land.
He was unusual in that being age 43 he had no need to re-enlist due to his age and his reserved occupation. He left a widow, Florence with six children. The family were reduced to poverty and lost their mining cottage and had to return to her family in Brecon. Florence and my mother became anti war as I am. James had been a professional soldier with 24 SWB from 1894-1906. He was a miner until 1916 when he re-enlisted with his brother Jo who went to SWB. James is buried at Pont du Hem cemetery near La Gorgues, Armentiere which I have visited.
I have 4 letters from the trenches, COs letter, Chaplain's letter, cap badge and other artifacts including a notebook of Flo's visit to his graveside in 1922. I give talks on the Tunnelling Companies and James Story and will be doing so in 1914.
Spr. James Walter Morris
British Army 257 Tunnelling Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Sirhowy, Tredegar
(d.8th Aug 1916)
Sapper James Morris was a miner at the Sirhowy Pit when he enlisted with the Royal Engineers and was posted to Flanders with 257 Tunnelling Co. He was killed on 8th August 1916 by a sniper. I have 4 trench letters, witness statement by Commanding officer Capt Stanley La mare, Padre's letter and War office notification. James was 43 and the father of 6 children. His widow and family were forced to leave their miner's cottage and return to Brecon Mid Wales where they had met and married. James had previously served with the South Wales Borderere for 12 years, 6yrs abroad.
I have given several talks on James in Brecon and Devon but I need a photograph and more details of his unit and their service. Can anyone help about 257 TC please?
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