LIEUTENANT HENRY MORRIS,
Duke of Cambridges' Own Battalion (Middlesex Regiment).
Lieutenant Morris was the eldest son of the Rev. Silas Morris, M.A., Principal of the North Wales Baptist College, Bangor, and of Mrs. Mary Hannah Morris. He entered Rugby School with a Scholarship in 1906. He won a Classical Scholarship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1911, was Head of the School in 1911-1912, and left with a General Exhibition in 1912. After the outbreak of war he joined the Oxford University O.T.C., in October, 1914, and received his commission in the following January. He went to France, and was attached to the 3rd Battalion of his Regiment in June, 1915. He took part in the Battle of Loos, which began on September 25th, and in the assault on the Holhenzolern Redoubt, was severely wounded by a bomb while gallantly leading his platoon in attack along a communication trench. While lying wounded he continued to encourage his men to go on, but was struck again and killed in the afternoon of September 28th, 1915. He was 22 years of age.
