Name
Cyril Lascelles Morris
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
13/08/1944
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Flight Lieutenant
81055
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
12 Sqdn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Hanover War Cemetery
Coll. grave 8. B. 12-17.
Germany
Headstone Inscription
LEAVE WIDE MY WINDOW ON THE WORLD; THE BEST OF BOTH LIVES IS MINE NOW
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Biography
His Service Number was 81055 and he served with 12 Squadron, which at the time of his death was flying Lancaster bombers from Wickenby northeast of Lincoln. Lancaster Ill PB 247 PH-4 took off at 21.17hrs to raid Braunschweig but the aircraft crashed. Two of the eight crew survived the crash and became prisoners-of-war.
He was buried in Collective Grave 8B 12-17 in Hanover War Cemetery in Germany. There is a private inscription on the stone which is unclear but part of it reads "LEAVE WIDE MY WINDOW ON THE WORLD; THE BEST OF BOTH LIVES IS MINE NOW"
He was the son of Edward Ernest and Aimee Morris and the husband of Lysbeth Joan Morris of Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, ‘RAF Squadrons’ by C.G. Jefford, ‘Bomber Command Losses’ by W.R. Chorley
