Charles Alan Smith MORRIS [2436]

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Casualties to Local Officers
Second Lieutenant C A S Morris.
Second Lt Charles Allen Smith Morris, Bedfordshire Regiment, who has been wounded, is the only son of Mr Charles Smith Morris, of Clevis Newton, Porthcawl, Glamorgan, and a grandson of the late Mr Byng Morris of Cheltenham and Bridgend, so that he is closely related to several families in this vicinity. He received his commission in the 3rd Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment in August last, he is in his 20th year.
Ref: Gloucestershire Echo 27 March 1915.

The Stricken Brave.
Second Lt Charles Allen Smith Morris, Bedfordshire Regiment, who has been wounded, is the only son of Mr Charles Smith Morris, of Clevis Newton, Porthcawl, Glamorgan, and a great grandson of Sir John Morris, second Baronet, who married the Honourable Lucy Juliana Byng, youngest daughter of the fifth Viscount Torrington. Second Lieutenant Morris is 19 years of age.
Ref: Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 27 March 1915.

Casualties to Local Officers.
Capt C A S Morris.
Capt C A S Morris, who was killed in action on April 23, was educated at Mr Owen's Stancliffe Hall, and at Wellington College, and went on to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he stroked his college boat and one the Ladies Challenge Plate at Henley Regatta in 1914. On the outbreak of the war he joined up, and was attached to the Bedfordshire Regiment, and in 1915 went to France. He was wounded at the battle of Neuve Chappel. Afterwards he was attached to the Royal Irish Fusiliers, and went to Salonika, where he was again wounded in December, 1915. Later he rejoined the Bedsfordshires and was at the Battle of the Somme, and has been at the front since that date. The colonel of his regiment writes: "Your son was such a gallant fellow, and met his death in the most courageous and gallant manner possible. He had reached two objectives, and then it appears his company were held up by a machine gun. Without a moment's hesitation he called upon his men to rush it, and leading the charge, fell." Capt Morris was the only son of Mr Charles Smith Morris, of Clevis house, Porthcawl, Glamorgan and grandson of the late Mr Byng Morris of Cheltenham and Bridgend so that he was closely related to several local families.
Ref: Gloucestershire Echo 1 May 1917.

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