Roll of Honour 2023

P AG 82

W ORLD W AR O NE (1914 - 1918) INCLUDING THOSE WHO DIED LATER AS A RESULT OF THIS WAR

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name RALPH D’ALBINI MORRELL (Capt)

Lef SES 1898

Roll Number 845 Died 08:08:1916

Set / House A

Arrive SES 1893

Where GUILLEMONT, SOMME, FRANCE Serving with 4TH, ROYAL LANCASTER REGIMENT

Age 35

Buried Picardie, France Remembered

Thiepval Memorial, War Memorial at Grange-Over-Sands, Cumbria, Cartmel Valley War Memorial, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born 1881 in Wrexham, Denbishire, the second of three SES brothers. He had a long but undistinguished career at the School. He was in The Shell Form on leaving. He left for Ceylon and took up tea and rubber planting, but returned soon afterwards to Grange-Over-Sands in Cumbria involving himself with Rifles Clubs, Church Lads’ Brigades, Boy Scouts and ‘other movements for the welfare of boys and young men (Chronicle)’. Commissioned into the Royal Lancaster Regiment (King’s Own Territorial Force) in 1910 he eventually went with this regiment to France in 1915. Invalided home in January 1916 for a short time. Later that year he returned to France and was promoted to Captain in temporary command of the Trones Wood Sector of the Somme Front, and was killed in action the following August during the Somme offensive ‘leading his Company in an assault’ (Company Diary). The Chronicle wrote ‘He was a very popular Officer’.