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Sidney Ivor Morse

Surname

Christian Names

Service Number

Rank

Regiment

Morse

Sidney Ivor

10257

Pte

1 Wilts

Born

Age

Enlisted at

Address

Chippenham

17

Melksham

The Causeway

Date of Death

Where killed

Cause of Death

02/03/1915

Ypres

Killed

Cemetery

Plot

Country

Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery

g.34

Belgium

Next of Kin

Next of kin address

Town

Arthur and Diana Morse 25 Causeway Chippenham

Notes

CWGC Says SF Morse

Casualty list 9th March 1915

Killed in action Pte S Morse 10257. 3rd Wiltshire Battalion

Wilts Times 3 April 1915

In ever loving memory of our dear son and brother Sydney Morse who was killed in action March 2nd 1915 aged 17

Out on yonder battlefield, there is a silent grave,
Is one we loved so dearly, but we could not save,
His King and Country called him, he bravely did his best,
But God thought fit to take him to his eternal rest.

Never forgotten by his father, mother, brothers and sisters.
Causeway, Chippenham.

Wilts Times 4 March 1916

The Wiltshire Regt war diary records the death of Morse as:

"In trenches. Enemy shelled from N of LAITERIE also main road and J 11 otherwise quiet.
Killed Lieut P M J Power RAMC attached 1st Wilts and one man, buried in Cemetery near Chateau KEMMEL."

However, Captain E Harvey, C Company, 1 Wilts sent a letter to his sister Amy  dated 9 Mar 1915 in which he says "Private Morse was killed instantaneously by a German bullet last Tuesday afternoon while in the trenches". This would seem to be the standard way of informing the next of kin regarding the circumstances of the death of soldiers.

 

Memorials Commemorated on:

Chippenham Town War Memorial

Yes

St Paul’s Church

St Andrew’s Church

Yes

Liberal Club

Hardenhuish Church

Causeway Methodist Church
Pewsham Street Yes
Boys School
Congregation Church

Last updated - 09/05/2016

 

 


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