Name
Joseph Anthony Morgan
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/05/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
King's Shropshire Light Infantry
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
D. 163.
Egypt
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Edmund’s College Memorial, Standon
Biography
The following text was transcribed from the The Edmundian (1814-1819) – The contemporary magazine of St Edmund’s College:
Born 22 April, 1898, Joseph Morgan came to St: Edmund's to study for the priesthood in September, 1912; a dark-haired, pleasant-faced boy, with a characteristic expression, half-puzzled, hall-amused. He had been at school in Belgium previously. During his three years stay here he passed through the classes from second of Rudiments to Syntax. Leaving the College early in 1915, he immediately joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. and put in two months' training at Berkhamstead, before he was gazetted to the Shropshire Light Infantry. He was on home duty until May, 1916, when he was sent to Egypt and attached to the Royal Flying Corps.
On the occasion of his death his machine was hit by an anti-aircraft shell with the result that one wing was broken and the machine crashed to the ground three hundred feet, both the occupants being killed. This was on 30 May. He lies buried in the Military Cemetery at Rafa. Mass was offered for his soul in the College Chapel on June 18.
That he was a good student will have been seen front his progress through four classes within three years that he made a good officer we have his Colonel’s testimony. In less than twenty years his brief life-work has been finished. It was all well done.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Di Vanderson, The Edmundian (1814-1819) – The contemporary magazine of St Edmund’s College
