MOORE, THOMAS, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 3729), 302799, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MOORE, THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9618), S.S. 106969, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MOORE, WILLIAM ALBERT, A.B., S.S. 132, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MOOREY, FRANK LESLIE, Private, No. 1714, 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of William Edmund Moorey, Head of the Estate and Survey Department of John Barker & Co., Ltd., of Kensington (formerly of Christchurch, and for many years a member of the Town Council and President of the Bournemouth and District Cricket League, etc.), by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of George Picken, of Kings Norton, co. Warwick; b. Christchurch, co. Hants, 20 March, 1894; educ. Bournemouth Public School, where he was a member of the O.T.C.; on leaving school, he received an appointment on the head office staff of the Bank of British North America, at 5, Gracechurch Street, E.C., and two days after the outbreak of war joined (7 Aug. 1914) the Kensingtons; leaving for France with his regt. 5 Nov. 1914. On the 18 Nov. he was wounded, went into hospital in France, but recovered, and was back again in the trenches before Christmas. During the fighting around La Bassée, in Jan. 1915, a German shell burst in the dug-out where he was, hitting some and practically burying others, whose mouths, nostrils and ears were filled with the clay. A virulent germ from this attacked him, and though sent home to England with frostbite in both feet (arriving 26 Jan.), septic pneumonia developed soon after his arrival, and he died in the 1st Eastern General Hospital at Cambridge, 19 Feb. 1915; unm. He was buried with full military honours in the Kensington Cemetery, 24 Feb. following. He was well-known in hockey circles in Hampshire and Kent, being an expert player, and was an excellent sculler, as well as a good footballer and cricketer. His elder brother, William Edward, joined the 10th City Battn. of the Royal Fusiliers and is now (1916) at the Front.

MOORHOUSE, WILLIAM APPLEYARD, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26717 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

RHODES-MOORHOUSE, WILLIAM BARNARD, V.C., Lieut., Royal Flying Corps, elder s. of Edward Moorhouse, of Parnham House, Dorsetshire, by his wife, Mary Anne, dau. of the Hon. William Bernard Rhodes, M.L.C., New Zealand; b. in London, 26 Sept. 1887 educ. The Golden Parsonage, Hertfordshire Harrow, and Trinity College, Cambridge, and after leaving there was engaged in monoplane experiments at Huntingdon in 1909–10, and has been truthfully described as “one of the pioneers” of aviation in England. He made many long flights before taking his pilot’s certificate in Oct. 1911. and was then considered probably the finest cross-country flier in this country, and quite the equal of anyone abroad.” He finished third in the Aerial Derby for 1912, and the same year established a record in aviation as the first pilot to make a Channel-crossing with two passengers (one of whom was his wife). Soon after joining the R.F.C. in Aug. 1914, he was placed in charge of work shops at Aircraft Park, South Farnborough, and remained there till 20 March, 1915, when he was sent out to the Front to join the No. 2 Squadron, No. 1 Wing, at Merville, as a flying officer. His promotion to the rank of Lieut. was gazetted after his death to rank as from 24 April, 1915. On Monday, 26 April, during the Second Battle of Ypres, an urgent message came through from Headquarters ordering the immediate destruction of the railway line at Courtrai Junction to prevent the bringing up of German reinforcements, and he was detailed for this important task, his instructions being “to use his own discretion as to his height at which he would drop his bomb.” He left Merville flying ground at 3.5 p.m., and returned again mortally wounded at 4.15, having piloted his machine over 35 miles under conditions of extreme difficulty after receiving his first serious wound. He made a full report before he was taken to hospital, so that Sir John French was able to record the destruction of Courtrai Junction in his Report from Headquarters despatched the same evening. He died of his wounds next day, but before his death received the following message: “But for pressure of urgent work the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief would have visited 2nd Lieut. Moorhouse himself to express his admiration of his courage and the way in which he carried out his duties yesterday.” [The Battle of Ypres was then in progress and Merville was over 30 miles from General Headquarters.] The following are extracts from the official accounts of his exploit: From Sir John French’s Report from Headquarters, 26 April, “One of our airmen bombed Courtrai Station this afternoon and destroyed the junction. Although wounded, he brought his machine back to our lines.” Extract from the Daily Bulletin issued to the troops (first issued by special request to the Indian Corps), who “had seen him flying back and were so impressed by his astounding courage” that they asked for further details and translated them into Hindustani, and it was afterwards circulated among all our troops at the Front. Dated 29 April, 1915. “British Air Raid on Courtrai. Details are now to hand of the successful air raid carried out on the 26th inst., and mentioned in yesterday’s bulletin. It is a story of amazing gallantry and heroism, and and is worthy of special notice. The aviator, 2nd Lieut. W. B. Rhodes-Moorhouse, left Merville at 3.5 in the afternoon, alone in a biplane, to drop a heavy bomb on the railway junction at Courtrai. Arriving at his destination, he volplaned down to a height of 300 ft. and successfully dropped the bomb on his objective, the effect of the explosion being felt by the aviator at a height of 300 ft. While at this low altitude he was subject to a tornado of fire from thousands of rifles, machine-guns and shell fire. He was severely wounded in the thigh (part of which was torn away), but instead of descending into the German lines where his life might have been saved, and to prevent his machine from falling into the hands of the Germans, he turned and made for the British lines. To increase his speed he descended a further 200 ft., and crossed the German lines at a height of 100 ft. only. He was again severely wounded by a bullet which ripped open his abdomen. Instead of landing at Ypres, he flew the whole way back to the flying ground at Merville, and made his report. We regret to say that he succumbed to his wounds 24 hours later. He was an aviator who had always performed several daring feats, and was the first man to do the ‘tail slide,’ and also the only man who had flown across the Channel with two passengers. This would appear worthy to be ranked among the most heroic stories of the world’s history.” Extract from Eye-witness’s communication dated 30 April: “The raid on Courtrai, unfortunately cost the nation a very gallant life, but it will live as one of the most heroic episodes of the war. The aviator started on the enterprise alone in a biplane. On arrival at Courtrai he glided down to a height of 300 ft., and dropped a large bomb on the railway junction. While he did this he was the target of hundreds of rifles, of machine guns, and of anti-aircraft armament, and was severely wounded in the thigh. Though he might have saved his life by at once coming down in the enemy’s lines, he decided to save his machine at all costs, and made for the British lines. Descending to a height of only 100 ft. in order to increase his speed, he continued to fly and was again wounded, this time mortally. He still flew on, however, and without coming down at the nearest of our aerodromes, went all the way back to his own base, where he executed a perfect landing and made his report. He died in hospital not long afterwards.” He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 3 May, 1915, and was awarded the V.C. [London Gazette, 22 May, 1915] “for most conspicuous bravery on 26 April, 1915, in flying to Courtrai, and dropping bombs on the railway line near that station. On starting the return journey he was mortally wounded, but succeeded in flying for 35 miles to his destination at a very low altitude and reported the successful accomplishment of his object. He has since died of his wounds.” Lieut. Rhodes-Moorhouse m. at St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, 25 June, 1912, Linda Beatrice (Parnham House, Beaminster, Dorset), yst. dau. of the late Robert Ambrose Morritt, of Rokeby, Yorkshire, and had a son: William Henry, b. 4 March, 1914. In accordance with the will of his grandfather he assumed the name of Rhodes in addition to, and before, that of Moorhouse by Royal Licence, 21 Jan. 1913.

MORAN, JOHN BARROW, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9651), S.S. 107013, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MORAN, JOSEPH, Private, No. 7776, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Michael Moran, of 9, Chatburn Avenue, Tanshelf, Pontefract, Miner, by his wife, Julianne, dau. of Patrick Tierney; b. Sharleston, near Wakefield, co. York, ... May, 1888; educ. Colliery School there; enlisted 1908; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons and the subsequent fighting on the Marne and Aisne, and died in hospital at Versailles, 24 Sept. 1914, of wounds received at La Cour de Soupir, on the Aisne, on the 17th. He was buried in Versailles Cemetery; unm.

MORGAN, ALBERT, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2767), S.S. 674, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MORGAN ALBERT ERNEST, Lieut., 6th (Special Reserve) Battn. Royal Fusiliers, only s. of Albert Charles Frederick Morgan, of 135, Oakwood Court, Kensington, by his wife, Marion Grimston, 4th dau. of John Alexander Fladgate, 1st Baron da Roeda in Portugal, and grandson of the late Thomas Morgan, F.S.A.; b. London, 24 May, 1889; educ. at Summerfield, Oxford, and at Westminster School; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 22 May, 1911; promoted Lieut. 1913; and attd. to the Royal Flying Corps on 15 Sept. 1914; acted as Assistant Instructor at the Upavon Flying School until he proceeded to the Front in France, in December, 1914. He was killed by a shell whilst observing for artillery fire from an aeroplane, during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, on 10 March, 1915; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915] for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

MORGAN, ARTHUR, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 968), 141514, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MORGAN, EDWARD CHARLES, 2nd Lieut., 1st, attd. to 5th Battn. Royal Berkshire Regt., elder s. of Charles Morgan, of Guildford, Surrey and formerly of Burdon Hall, Shackleford, M.A. Cantab., late Naval Instructor, R.N., by his wife, Kathleen Courtenay, dau. of Edward Robinson, of West Meath, and granddau. of the late Thomas Morgan, F.S.A.; b. Blackheath, 19 Dec. 1897; educ. at Haileybury and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; obtained his first commission, 15 July, 1914, and shortly afterwards proceeded to France as an observer in the Royal Flying Corps, subsequently joining his Battn. in the trenches. He was killed by a shell when in charge of a machine gun, with three of his men, several others being wounded, on 18 Dec. 1915; unm. He was buried in Windy Corner (the Guards’ Cemetery), Givenchy. Lieut.-Col. F. W. Foley, in command of his Battn., wrote: “he was killed by a large shell, the first one from the German artillery on their suddenly opening fire in this locality.... I always felt in the position of a parent to him, he was so young ... all his officers loved him, and none more than I did; he was a perfectly delightful boy, and a first-rate officer.... I arranged with the Chaplain to bury him to-morrow morning in a coffin, and I will see that a cross is put up to his memory.”

MORGAN, FRANCIS MATTHEW, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 5502, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MORGAN, GEORGE, Private, No. 4058, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of the late William Morgan, of Worminster, near Shepton Mallet, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Mary, dau. of William Billing; b. North Wooten, near Shepton Mallet, co. Somerset, 12 May, 1883; educ. North Wooten Church of England School; enlisted 6 Feb. 1901; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action by the explosion of a bomb at Vermelles, Belgium, 8 Oct. 1915. He m. at Shepton Mallet, 19 Sept. 1905, Florence (The Mill House, Shepton Mallet), 7th dau. of William Woolley, of Shepton Mallet, Farmer, and had four children: Ethel, b. 14 Oct. 1906; Edith Gwendoline, b. 9 Sept. 1907; Lillian Beatrice, b. 20 Feb. 1909; and Marion Olive, b. 27 Nov. 1910.

MORGAN, HARRY, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Auckland (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own) Regt., s. of William Morgan, of Birmingham, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of James Duffield; b. West Bromwich, co. Stafford; educ. Birmingham; went to New Zealand about 1891 and was for some time Officer Commanding the 88th Coy. of Senior Cadets, Auckland. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Auckland Regt., 28 March, 1912, and promoted Lieut., 8 April, 1915, being Provost-Marshal while in Epsom Camp before proceeding with his regt. to the Front. He was killed in action at Cape Helles, 8 May, 1915. Capt. Frazer, since invalided to Auckland, told Lieut. Morgan’s wife: “The day on which he fell there had been a terrible charge. He was one of those to get back to the trenches safely, but, on peering out, saw some wounded still under fire. At his own risk he went out and brought one man in who had been shot in the thigh, and then started out for a brother officer, whom he had passed when getting the wounded man in. Unfortunately a sniper got him, and ended a glorious career”; and Lieut. Topham, Gallipoli, wrote: “I was quite near to him when he fell; he was shot through the head and only lived a few minutes. It had always been said that he would either get killed in action or win a V.C. He was so daring and had absolutely no fear. It happened down at Cape Helles on 8 May, the day on which the New Zealand Infantry made history.... He fell in the thick of the fight and died game, and was buried that night where he fell. A wooden cross was placed at the head of his grave by some of the men of his company.” An Auckland nurse from the 15th General Hospital, Alexandria, stated: “The soldier who told me of his death said his conduct had been most heroic, and that he was seen night after night creeping out of the trenches to help back the wounded soldiers.” Lieut. Morgan m. at Auckland, 12 May, 1897, Euphemia Margaret (“Waiuna,” Rata Street, New Lynn, Auckland), yst. dau. of David Heron, late Madras Commissariat Department, India, and had one dau., Gwendolen Margaret, b. 6 June, 1911.

MORGAN, ROBERT WILLIAM, Private, No. 696, 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of the late William Henry Morgan, of 13, Albert Road, Leyton, Commercial Traveller, by his wife, Mary Ann (25, Wellesley Road, Leytonstone), dau. of Joseph Barnes, of Torquay, Devon; b. Leyton, co. Essex, 3 Sept. 1884; educ. Newport School, Leyton; enlisted in the 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., 28 Jan. 1901; served in the South African War and afterwards in India, where he finished his service with the Colours. In 1909 he emigrated to Western Australia, and on the outbreak of war joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force and sailed for Egypt, Sept. 1914. He died on board H.M. Hospital Ship Sicilian, 9 June, 1915, of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles on the 4th of that month while on observation duty; unm.

MORGAN, STEPHEN BEVERLEY, 2nd Lieut., 3rd attd. 1st Battn. Leicestershire Regt., 2nd s. of Frederick Beverley Morgan, of Muscalls, Paddock Wood, Kent, by his wife, Clara Elizabeth, dau. of Major Edgworth Horrocks; b. Tunbridge Wells, 22 April, 1896; educ. Hurstleigh, Tunbridge Wells, and Clifton College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Leicestershires, 15 Aug. 1914; went to France attached to the 1st Battn., and was killed in action by shell fire in the trenches near Armentières, 14 May, 1915; unm. Buried in the Regimental Burial Ground behind the trenches. He was a well-known cricketer, and played for the Public Schools at Lords, in the summer of 1914.

MORGANS, THOMAS ALFRED, Leading Seaman, 239252, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MORIARTY, THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3851), 204033, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MORKILL, RONALD FALSHAW, Lieut., 1st Battn. West Yorkshire Regt. and Flying Officer, Royal Flying Corps; 2nd s. of John William Morkill, of Newfield Hall, Malhamdale, Yorkshire, M.A., J.P., by his wife, Hannah Shaw, yst. dau. of Peter Hobson, of Castle Lodge, Yorkshire, and niece and co-heiress of Sir James Falshaw, Bart.; b. Edinburgh, 22 Nov. 1891; educ. Radley, and University College, London; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. 4th (Special Reserve) Battn. West Yorkshire Regt. 1 Oct. 1911, and was promoted Lieut. 3 Dec. 1912. After the outbreak of war he was (14 Aug. 1914) gazetted to the 1st West Yorkshires and the following day went to the Front as Lieut. attd. to the 1st East Yorkshires, with which he served through the winter of 1914–15. On 1 July, 1913, he gained a pilot’s certificate from the Royal Aero Club, and in Feb. 1915, was transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as a probationer. He qualified as a flying officer on 19 June, and was gazetted to the Corps on 15 July, after his death. Under orders on 22 June he piloted a Blériot Monoplane from Gosport to Shoreham, leaving the latter place on his return journey shortly after 6 o’clock in the evening. He had risen barely 200 feet when his engine was noticed to miss fire and finally stop. Having insufficient space beneath him he was unable to keep control of his craft which dived to the earth causing injuries by the impact from which he died in the Military Hospital a few hours later. A letter of sympathy from the N.C.Os. and men of the section he commanded, dated 3 July, 1915, contains the following passage: “The hardest and most terribly trying time—last winter—he spent in the trenches with us, and never a murmur of complaint was ever heard to fall from his lips. To say he was loved by all men would be to express our feelings in the mildest form.” Buried at Kirby-in-Malhamdale, Yorkshire. He m. at Holy Trinity Church, Heywood, Westbury, Wilts, 23 Sept. 1914, Ellen Mary, yst. dau. of the late Thomas Loyzelure Wilkinson, of Neasham Abbey, near Darlington; s.p.

MORLAND, HENRY ALFRED, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111650 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MORONEY, EDWARD FRANCIS, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3965), S.S. 102026, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MORPETH, MOORE, Private, No. 12/1039, 6th Hauraki Coy., Auckland Infantry Battn., 5th s. of Henry Douglas Morpeth, Town Clerk of Waiki, Auckland, New Zealand; b. Auckland, 10 May, 1894; educ. Waiki District High School; was studying law in Auckland when war broke out, and was one of three brothers who at once volunteered and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force early in Aug. 1914. He left for Egypt with the main body on 16 Oct., and on 12 April embarked from there for the Dardanelles, taking part in the landing at Gaba Tepe on the 25th of that month. He was one of a small body of New Zealanders and Australians who, after making good their landing, had gained the ridges above Anzac Cove, but the enemy coming at them in force they were obliged to retire. One of the Australians was struck down, and Morpeth made over to his assistance, when he received a mortal wound that paralysed him. His comrades, in the face of advancing Turks, could do nothing for him, and next day when the ground was retaken his dead body was found where he fell; unm.

MORPHEW, ARTHUR, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115038, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MORPHEW, ERNEST, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7934), S.S. 103605, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MORRIS, ARTHUR, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2176), 194828, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MORRIS, CLIVE WILSON, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 6th s. of Frank Robert-Morris, of Crofton, near Orpington, Kent; b. Oak Hill Park, Hampstead, N., 4 March, 1894; educ St. Cyprian’s, Eastbourne, and Repton; volunteered and joined the Artists’ Rifles on the outbreak of war, Oct. 1914; went to France in Oct.; was given a commission in the 2nd King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 1 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Richebourg L’Avoué, France, 9 May following; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “He was killed in an attack on a very strong German position, as he was gallantly leading his platoon across the open.”

MORRIS, HON. GEORGE HENRY, Lieut.-Col., 1st Battn. Irish Guards, 2nd s. of Michael, 1st Lord Morris and Killanin, P.C., Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, by his wife, Anna, dau. of the Hon. George Henry Hughes, a Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland; b. co. Galway, 16 July, 1872; educ. The Oratory School, Birmingham, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Battn. Rifle Brigade, then stationed in India, 12 March, 1892, and promoted Lieut., 16 May, 1894; took part in the operations on the North-West Frontier of India, 1897–8, with the Tochi Field Force, for which he received the medal with clasp, and from 7 Jan. 1897, to 6 Jan. 1901, was Adjutant of his battn., receiving his company, 16 Aug. 1899. In 1901 he entered the Staff College, but left soon afterwards and went out to South Africa and served with Damant’s Horse in the latter stage of the Boer War, taking part in the operations in the Orange River Colony, Feb. to March, 1902, and in those in the Transvaal, March to 31 May, 1902, and was mentioned in despatches [London Gazette, 18 July, 1902] and received the Queen’s medal with four clasps. He then returned to the Staff College and passed out in 1903, and after being D.A.A.G. at Belfast (8–31 March, 1904), was Staff Capt., Army Headquarters, 1 April, 1904, to 12 March, 1906. He was gazetted Major to the 1st Battn. Irish Guards, 3 March, 1906, and on 15 May, 1908, was appointed D.A.A.G. (General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade), with the rank of temp. Lieut.-Col. at the Staff College, where he remained until 1911. On 15 July, 1913, he obtained command of his Battn., and in Aug. 1914, he went to France with the Expeditionary Force, in which the 1st Irish Guards formed part of the 4th Brigade (2nd Division, 1st Army Corps). He was killed in action during the retreat from Mons, while endeavouring to extricate some of his men from an impossible position, in the woods of Compiègne, near Villers Cotterets on 1 Sept. following. When the Battn. reassembled after a difficult rearguard fight through the beech woods, Lieut.-Col. Morris missed some of No. 4 Coy. and went back alone to find them, but they were hopelessly outnumbered, and he was killed while leading a final bayonet charge. He was buried in Villers Cotterets Cemetery. Lieut.-Col. Morris was a brilliant Lecturer on Military History and Tactics, and was universally regarded as one of the cleverest men of his age in the Army. The men of the Irish Guards were deeply attached to him and he was immensely proud of his battn. He m. at Westminster Cathedral, 29 April, 1913, Dora Wesley (10, Chesham Place, S.W.), dau. of the late James Wesley Hall, of Melbourne, and had a son, Michael, b. 30 July, 1914.

MORRIS, HENRY GAGE, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., only surviving child of Col. Henry Gage Morris, late commanding 2nd Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., and great-great-grandson of Col. Roger Morris of York, by his wife, Maude, dau. of the late Preston Gilbert Wallis, of Park Hill, Bodmin; b. Bodmin, co. Cornwall, 14 Aug. 1897; educ. Preparatory School, The Hoe, Plymouth; Marlborough College (Sept. 1911–July, 1914), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., 12 Jan. 1915, aged 17½ years; went to France, 15 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at the second Battle of Ypres, 23 April, 1915, being buried where he fell. His commanding officer wrote: “He was such a nice boy, and a very brave and gallant lad, and died gallantly. He was killed in a counter-attack we made with the 13th Brigade, the East Yorks., York and Lancs., and 4th Canadians on the 23rd. I was commanding the Battn. at the time, and the last I saw of him he passed me with a platoon of C Coy., which was in Reserve. He came past me with a very cheerful face, and laughing under a very heavy cross-fire from machine guns, and sang out to me, ‘Shall I push on?’ and I answered, ‘Go on, laddie, as hard as you can.’ Poor lad, I did not see him again, but heard he was shot in the head, but he would not let anyone stay with him. He was such a good boy, always cheerful and always ready to do anything that was wanted. He was very popular with everyone—officers and men;” and Private W. Board, C Coy., Duke of Cornwall’s L.I.: “You must be proud to know your son was as brave a man as anyone could wish to meet. I was his servant while he was in France, and a better master I never had. The men in the platoon loved him, and would do anything for him. He was always cheerful and had friends every where he went. I was not with him when he got hit, but I heard he wanted to go on, and refused to be bandaged, as he said there were men who were hit more badly than himself. He always thought of others before himself.” A writer in his School Magazine (“The Marlburian,” 19 May, 1915) said: “From his earliest days in the school—in ‘A’ House, his company was a real pleasure. Always bright and full of fun, and merry talk, he had from the first great personal charm; and as he developed, one saw behind him those qualities of modesty, generosity, and straightness, which mark the perfect gentleman.”

MORRIS, JAMES, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class, 279187, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MORRIS, JOHN, Leading Stoker (C.G.), 151804, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MORRIS, WILLIAM, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115482, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MORRIS, WILLIAM, Leading Seaman, 214875, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MORRISON, EDWIN DUNCAN RUTHERFORD, Private No. 10/1007, 9th Hawkes Bay Regt., Wellington Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force; s. of George Morrison, of Normanby, New Zealand, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of Thomas Novis; b. Cust, Canterbury, New Zealand, 21 Nov. 1889; educ. Belfast, Canterbury. On the outbreak of war in August, 1914, he joined the N.Z.E.F. at Napier, Hawkes Bay; left for Egypt with the first contingent, took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal, in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 28 April following; unm. Throughout the whole of the day of his death Private Morrison had been fighting and escaped injury, but was fatally hit in the evening while digging a trench. He was an excellent shot, and before going to the Dardanelles had been selected as a sniper.

MORRISON, FREDERICK CHARLES, Corpl., No. 4972, 1st Battn. (The Prince Consort’s Own) The Rifle Brigade, s. of Frank Saunderson Morrison, of The Cottage, Hallaton, co. Leicester, F.R.C.S., J.P.; b. Dublin, 19 Aug. 1882; educ. Dundalk Educational Institution; St. John’s College, near Preston, and Trinity College, Dublin, of which he became a graduate and honour man; qualified as an engineer and went to Rhodesia; volunteered his services for the suppression of the rising in Natal, 1906–7, for which he received the King’s medal, and on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he, with three other old University comrades, returned to England and joined the Rifle Brigade in Sept.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and was killed in action during the engagement at Ploegsteert, 7 Feb. 1915; unm. He was a good athlete and footballer, playing for his school and college; a hard rider to hounds, well-known to the Louth Pack and Harriers.

MORRISON, GERARD HUMPHREYS, Capt., 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of John Hebb Morrison, of 63, Hamilton Terrace, London, Member of Lloyds; b. London, 16 March, 1889; educ. Harrow, and Magdalen College, Oxford (where he was in the O.T.C.); received a commission in the London Rifle Brigade, on leaving Oxford, and was promoted Lieut. 18 Sept. 1913, and Capt. 25 Feb. 1915; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France in Oct., and was killed in action near Armentières, 31 March. 1915; unm. Buried in the Rifle Brigade Cemetery in Ploegsteert Wood. His Col., Lord Cairns, wrote: “We all loved him—he was not only a personal friend to us all, but also a good and capable officer. He was a splendid example of cheerfulness and devotion to duty, and I am convinced that his men would have followed him anywhere”; and his Major: “Universally loved by us all, a born leader of men, it is impossible for me to tell you what a gap your son’s death will make in the regiment.” While at Harrow he was head of his house (H.O.D. Davidson’s), and in the football XI; at Oxford he took his degree with honours in law, and was made President I.C.R.

MORRISON, HERBERT HENRY, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4507), 176230, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MORRISON, JOHN, L.-Corpl., No. 5181, 1st Battn. Black Watch, 2nd surviving s. of John Morrison, Head Gamekeeper to Major, The Brodie of Brodie, Brodie Castle, Forres, by his wife Margaret, dau. of the late Alexander Ross, North Lodge, Orton, co. Moray; b. Inveravon, Banffshire, 14 Nov. 1885; enlisted 7 Sept. 1914, drafted to France in Nov.; killed during heavy fighting, in which his regt. was engaged at La Bassée, on 25 Jan. 1915; unm. A comrade wrote: “The attack was fierce, and John got a bullet in the leg. Nevertheless, he crawled to the assistance of his officer, 2nd Lieut. L. H. Willet, also wounded, and was in the act of helping him to remove his pack when fatally shot. He was promoted L.-Corpl. only a few days before.” 2nd Lieut. Willet said: “Some gallant fellow crawled up to me shortly after I was hit, and attempted to assist me off with my pack, but owing to the nature of my wound, I was unable to turn my neck sufficiently round to see who it was. I heard he was hit, and asked him if it was so. He replied: ‘Yes, Sir’; and when I inquired later, I received no reply, but could just touch his hand by reaching back, and found he was dead. From the sound of his voice I thought it was your brother, who was in my Platoon, and I hoped it wasn’t so, and that I had made a mistake, for he was one of my most valued men.... His end was a gallant one, and his was a peaceful conclusion to a career, which, had he been spared to prolong it, he could have looked back on with the justifiable pride of one who has done his work well.” His brother, George James, is a 2nd Lieut. 3/6th Seaforth Highlanders.

MORROW, ROBERT, V.C., Private, No. 10531, 1st Battn. Princess Victoria’s Royal Irish Fusiliers, s. of Hugh Morrow (who died 21 years ago), by his wife Margaret Jane, dau. of Isaac William Ash McKnight, Tailor; b. Sessia, near Newmills, East Tyrone, 28 March, 1892; educ. Carland National School, 1909; enlisted about 1910; went to the Front with his battn. on the outbreak of war, and greatly distinguished himself at Messines on 12 April, 1915, by rescuing several wounded soldiers who were lying exposed to a dreadful rain of shell and rifle fire. For this he was awarded the Victoria Cross, the official record stating that it was granted “For most conspicuous bravery near Messines on 12 April, 1915, when he rescued and carried successively to places of comparative safety several men who had been buried in the débris of trenches wrecked by shell fire. Private Morrow carried out this gallant work on his own initiative, and under very heavy fire from the enemy.” On 25 April, barely a fortnight later, he was killed at St. Julien while in the act of again succouring the wounded. The Victoria Cross was forwarded to his mother, to whom His Majesty the King sent an autograph letter regretting that Private Morrow’s death had deprived him of the pride of personally conferring the Victoria Cross, “the greatest of all distinctions.” The Emperor of Russia also conferred on him the medal of St. George (3rd Class) for his “gallantry and distinguished service in the field,” the War Office in forwarding the decoration stated that it was to be retained as a memorial of the deceased soldier’s distinguished conduct. He was unm.

MORRISON, WILLIAM, Stoker, R.N.R., T. 1981, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MORSE, GORDON THOMAS HARCOURT, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., 2nd s. of Lieut.-Col. Richard Edward Ricketts Morse, of Chargrove House, near Cheltenham, by his wife, Kathleen, dau. of the late Col. Neville Hill Shute (64th), North Staffordshire Regt.; b. Mian Meer, Punjab, India, 6 Dec. 1893; educ. Cheltenham College (Sept. 1908–Dec. 1912), and Royal Military College, Sandhurst (12 Feb. 1913–July, 1914), where he was an Hon. King’s Cadet; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Middlesex Regt., 8 Aug. 1914; went to France, 12 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at La Bassée, 13 Oct. 1914; unm. He was buried at Rouge-Croix, France. His Col. wrote that he was killed instantaneously being shot while leading his platoon in an attack, and that “during the short time he was with the regiment he had become popular with both officers and men.” At College he rose to be a prefect, and his house-master said of him: “He was industrious at work, fearless at games, loyal to his friends, and esteemed by all.”

MORSE, GURTH STEPHEN, 2nd Lieut., 34th Batty. Royal Field Artillery, yst. s. of Amyas Morse, of The Bourne, Bourne End, Bucks, late Superintending Engineer, Indian Public Works Department, by his wife, Rose, dau. of the late Rev. Henry John Maddock; b. Lahore, Punjab, India, 20 March, 1894; educ. Ashampstead, Eastbourne; Clifton College, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.F.A., 18 July, 1913; went to France, 12 Sept. 1914, and died in Hospital at Bailleul, on 9 Dec. following, of wounds received in action on the 4th, while observing for his battery at Bois Grenier, near Armentières. He was buried in the Communal Cemetery, Bailleul; unm.

MORTAR, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10391, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MORTIMER, HARRY BROOKS, Private, No. 2731, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of the late William Henry Mortimer, of Heaton Moor, near Stockport, by his wife, Mary Ann (Oakin Clough, Limehurst, Ashton-under-Lyne), dau. of the late Samuel Brooks; b. Longsight, Manchester, 31 Jan. 1883; educ. Grammar School, Longsight, and was a Manager of a Restaurant for John Lewis, Oxford Street, London. On the outbreak of war he joined the Kensingtons, 1 Sept. 1914; went to France on 3 Nov.; took part in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March, 1915, and in the attack on the German position near Fromelles on 9 May, in which his Battn. most brilliantly distinguished itself, and died in No. 6 Clearing Station, Merville, 12 May, 1915, from wounds received at the latter. He was buried in Merville Cemetery; unm.

MORTON, EDGAR DOUGLAS, Trooper, No. 1391, 1st (Service) squadron, Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles (Yeomanry), only s. of Edgar Morton, of The Studio, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, by his wife, Eleanor Jane, dau. of Edward John Wall, of Great Chesterford; b. London, 7 June, 1895; educ. Ashford Grammar School (Sept. 1906, to Easter, 1913), and on leaving there entered the Canterbury Motor Works, where he was when war broke out. He joined the Waldershare Troop of the East Kent Yeomanry, 7 Sept. 1914, and was quartered with the regt. in huts on the Military Polo Ground at Canterbury during the autumn and winter. He died in the Canterbury V.A.D. Hospital, 22 Feb. 1915, from pneumonia and pleurisy contracted while on service. He was a good all-round sportsman and a crack shot. At Ashford he was the school prefect, and Capt. of the football team, and twice won the Strathcona shooting trophy. His former Headmaster (Mr. A. S. Lamprey) wrote: “One of the best, straightest, pluckiest boys I have ever known,” and Major Ffrench Blake “He was a general favourite, and we all mourn the loss of a young but keen soldier.”

MORTON, HENRY, Private, No. 1790, 1st Sussex Yeomanry, 3rd s. of the late Thomas Morton (who served 21 years in India with the 2nd Bengal Fusiliers, and received the Good Conduct medal, etc., and afterwards for 15 years on the staff of the old Wicklow Rifles); b. Wicklow, 15 Dec. 1867; educ. Wicklow Church School; enlisted in the Royal Artillery, 15 June, 1887; transferred into the Grenadier Guards, 1 Oct. following, and was posted to the 3rd Battn. He served through the South African War, 1899–1902, receiving the Queen’s medal with six bars (Belmont, Modder River, Dreifontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast) and the King’s medal with two bars (1901, 1902), and obtained his discharge at his own request in Sept. 1906, after being with the Colours 19 years and 87 days, when he was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct medal. He was servant to Capt. Weller-Poley, re-enlisted in the Sussex Yeomanry the day war was declared; went to the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Sept., 1915, and was killed in action, 13 Nov. 1915; unm. He was buried in Anglesea Gully, Gallipoli. Writing to his brother, Mr. George Morton, of 4, North Road, Prestwich, Manchester, Capt. Weller-Poley said: “I feel that I have lost a true friend and trusted servant who can never be replaced,” and Mr. Thomas Weller-Poley, of Chichester, J.P.: “Your brother Henry had been with us so long and was so much liked and respected by everyone, that the news of his death is a genuine sorrow to us and to the whole establishment.”

MORTON, JAMES FAIRFAX AMPHLETT, 2nd Lieut., 6th (Reserve Battn., attd. 2nd, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 2nd s. of James Amphlett Morton, of Puxton House, Kidderminster, by his wife, Edith Mary, dau. of the Rev. John Garland, Vicar of Ombersley, Worcestershire; b. Puxton House, afsd., 6 May, 1892; and was educ. at Repton and Clare College, Cambridge, where he rowed stroke in his college boat in the May Races, 1914. On the outbreak of war he at once applied for a commission through the University O.T.C. and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 7th (Service) Battn. K.R.R.C., early in Sept. 1914. After spending three weeks at a training camp for officers at Royston, Herts, he joined his battalion at Aldershot, but was subsequently transferred to the 6th (Reserve) Battn. at Sheerness. He left for France at the end of Nov. 1914, and was attached to the 2nd K.R.R.C. (2nd Brigade, 1st Division). He was killed in action near La Bassée, 10 Jan. 1915, during a counter-attack by the enemy to recover one of their trenches against which he had just led a successful assault. Buried in a garden at Cuinchy; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915.

MORTON, WILFRED, Private, No. 2581, 1/7th Battn. Durham Light Infantry (T.F.), eldest s. of William Morton, of 47, Otto Terrace, Sunderland, Quantity Surveyor, by his wife, Evelyn Mary, dau. of Lancelot Steel; b. Sunderland, 1 Dec. 1895; educ. Great Ayton, Sunderland, and Ackworth; was a pupil in his father’s office; enlisted 6 Sept. 1914; went to the front, 19 April, 1915, was wounded and taken prisoner at Hooge, on Whit Monday, and was afterwards officially reported to have died, whilst a prisoner of war, in the Krieg Lazarette, Rossclare, 30 May, 1915, from wounds, and was buried at Rossclare; unm.

BOYD-MOSS, ERNEST WILLIAM, D.S.O., Major, 4th, attd. 9th, Battn. Worcestershire Regt., yr. s. of the late Matthew Henry Moss, of Belsize, Worthing; b. 26 Sept. 1876; educ. Tonbridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. Worcestershire Regt. from the Militia, 1 Dec. 1897; promoted Lieut. 2 Jan. 1900; Capt. 6 Feb. 1901, and temp. Major of the Battn., 22 Oct. 1914; was attd. to the West African Frontier Force, 12 Nov. 1904, to 11 July, 1907; served (1) in West Africa, 1898–9; took part in the operations in Sierra Leone (medal with clasp); (2) in the South African War, 1900–2, took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900; operations in Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Ladybrand, 2–5 Sept, for which he was awarded the D.S.O.; operations in the Transvaal, Jan.-June, 1901; operations in Orange River Colony, 30 Nov. 1900–Jan. 1901, and June, 1901–Feb. 1902 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901]; Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps); and (3) with the Mediterranaean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action at Sari Bair, 10 Aug. 1915. Major Boyd-Moss m. at Christ Church, Gorakhpur, U.P., India, Mary Elizabeth Grace (Elsie), dau. of Frank Middliton Howard, of Zehra, Gorakhpur, aforesaid, and had a son, Deryck Frank, b. 11 April, 1913.

MOSS, HERBERT, Private, No. 126, A Coy., 8th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of Herbert Moss, of 182, Queen’s Road, Upton Park, by his wife, Emily Ann, dau. of the late John Samuel Field; b. New Eltham, co. Kent, 29 June, 1894; educ. Stock Street Schools, Albert Road, Plaistow; went to Australia, 6 May, 1912, and when war broke out was employed on a farm belonging to Mrs. J. Greenbank, in Snake Valley, Victoria. He at once volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; sailed for Egypt; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there the same day, being shot through the forehead in a charge; unm. Letters from his former employer and from his officers and comrades speak very highly of him.

MOSS, HORACE GEORGE, Signalman, J. 12422, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MOSS, SAMUEL, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3653), 177261. H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MOTRONI, PETER GEORGE, Private, No. 8727, 2nd Battn. Suffolk Regt., 2nd s. of Anthony Motroni, of 14, Permit Office Street, Ipswich, by his wife, Carmela, dau. of Dominico Marcantonio, of Atina, Italy; b. Colchester, co. Essex, 1 July, 1895; educ. St. Pancras R.C. School, and St. Mary’s Convent School, Ipswich; enlisted 4 April, 1913; went to France, 11 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Hooges, near Ypres, 19 July, 1915; unm.