World War I British Army Officer. A member of a prominent Philadelphia Family, he volunteered to fight for England when World War I erupted. He was eventually commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Somme. His remains were never identified on the battlefield, and a cenotaph exists for him in his family's plot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
His name is also inscribed on the Special Memorial in Guards' Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Somme, France.
His story can be found on this page - http://www.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/comment/
AmerVolunteers/Morse2&3.htm
His name is also inscribed on the Special Memorial in Guards' Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Somme, France.
His story can be found on this page - http://www.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/comment/
AmerVolunteers/Morse2&3.htm
World War I British Army Officer. A member of a prominent Philadelphia Family, he volunteered to fight for England when World War I erupted. He was eventually commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Somme. His remains were never identified on the battlefield, and a cenotaph exists for him in his family's plot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
His name is also inscribed on the Special Memorial in Guards' Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Somme, France.
His story can be found on this page - http://www.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/comment/
AmerVolunteers/Morse2&3.htm
His name is also inscribed on the Special Memorial in Guards' Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Somme, France.
His story can be found on this page - http://www.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/comment/
AmerVolunteers/Morse2&3.htm
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Records on Ancestry
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1910 United States Federal Census
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Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013
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Global, Find a Grave® Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current
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U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925
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UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919
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