Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 83

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 JOSEPH LEONARD MILTHROP MORTON (Capt)

Roll Number 1211 Died 22:10:1917

Arrive SES 1905

Lef SES 1908

Set / House B

Where HOUTHULST, YPRES, BELGIUM Serving with 23RD, MANCHESTER REGIMENT

Age 22

Buried No Known Grave Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Panel, Roll of Honour at The Perse School, Cambridge, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born 1895, Redditch, Worcestershire son of an Army Captain. At St. Edward’s (and Berkhampstead) he excelled scholastically and in the boxing ring. When he left the School he was in the Lower IVth Form. He went up to Christ Church College, Oxford in 1914 but his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of The Great War. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment in March 1915 and promoted to Lieutenant in July 1916. A further promotion followed in 1917 when he was made a Captain in the 23rd Battalion. During an eventful war career he had been on the front line for two years and wounded ‘several times’. He was killed in action in October 1917 at Houthulst Forest on the Ypres Salient ‘trying to rally an adjacent Company who had lost all their officers, despite being wounded himself previously’ (Chronicle). They were attacked by German planes and lost contact with the Royal Scots on their left and the Lancashire Fusiliers on their right whose attacks had failed. The result was that the German strong points were left untouched to their rear and caused enormous casualties including all the officers.