Name
Thomas Morris
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/07/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/2116
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 12 D and 13 B.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Sawbridgeworth memorials
Pre War
Thomas was the son of Mrs. H. Morris, of 35, Rosebery Rd., Lower Edmonton, London and was born in Sawbridgeworth in April 1893.
by 1901 had moved to Oakhurst Road, Edmonton. In the 1911 census, he was recorded as a ‘Restaurant Waiter’.
He enlisted in Mill Hill with the 12th Battalion Middlesex Regiment.
Wartime Service
They arrived in France via Le Havre on 26 July 1915.
In July 1916 the Battalion was in action in the Somme offensive. On the date of Thomas’ death, the Battalion took part in a 4 Division attack on Bazentin Ridge. Unlike some of the Somme battles, this was a relative (though costly) success.
One of the casualties was Thomas Morris. He was killed in action 14 July 1916. He has no known grave and is named on the Thiepval Memorial. He was aged 23.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Douglas Coe
