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Robert Oliver MORRIS
« on: Monday 19 May 14 07:51 BST (UK) »
Robert was born in 1895 in Crunwear, Pembrokeshire and lost a leg during WWI. I have been unable to trace service records for him on Ancestry or Find my Past. I realise that they could be amongst the lost records but can anyone suggest where I might be able to find him. I know he died in about 1964.

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Re: Robert Oliver MORRIS
« Reply #1 on: Monday 19 May 14 11:53 BST (UK) »
Hi

A lot of WW1 records were lost during the Blitz.

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Re: Robert Oliver MORRIS
« Reply #2 on: Monday 19 May 14 12:04 BST (UK) »
Have you looked for a Pension record.
Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
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Re: Robert Oliver MORRIS
« Reply #3 on: Monday 19 May 14 16:28 BST (UK) »
Did he stay in Wales or possibly move to the midlands?
Cathy
Sinnock/Sinnicks...Brighton,Greenwich.
Clements,Coles,Mc Donagh,Rock

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Re: Robert Oliver MORRIS
« Reply #4 on: Monday 19 May 14 16:57 BST (UK) »
Any surviving photos or medals...if he lost leg there should be a SIlver war badge entry but its a very common name so lots to choose from.

Local papers had details of lads wounded

Ady
Lowe(Lower Gornall-Castleford)
Blackburn (Castleford)
Sidwell(Ledsham)
Fairburn(Hartshead)
Wood(Liversedge)
Tallon (Whittington Lancs/Hartshead West Yorkshire)

Researching all Great War soldiers from the Spen Valley of West Yorkshire Especially lads from the Cleckheaton Company of 1/4th West Riding Regiment.

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Re: Robert Oliver MORRIS
« Reply #5 on: Monday 19 May 14 16:59 BST (UK) »
We need a Regt. & no. for him.
Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
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Re: Robert Oliver MORRIS
« Reply #6 on: Monday 19 May 14 17:06 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the responses. I thought Ancestry had the pension records, are they somewhere else? He didn't stay in Wales, he married Florence Salisbury in 1917 in Brentford, had two children and died there. Can't find any medal entries for him and we have been told he was in the Welsh regiment. These are all family stories including that he had 8 bullet wounds, hit by a machine gunner, which resulted in his lost leg. Experience tells me some of these stories sometimes get exaggerated.

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Kearney & Bourke/ Johns & Fox/ Mannion & Finan/ Donohoe & Curley
Byrne [Carthy], Keeffe/ Germaine, Butler/ McDermott, Giblin/ Lally, Dolan
Toole, Doran; Dowling, Grogan/ Reilly, Burke; Warren, Kidd [Lawless]/ Smith, Scally; Mangan, Rodgers/ Fahy, Calday; Staunton, Miller
Further generations:
Brophy Coleman Eathorn(e) Fahy Fitzpatrick Geraghty Haverty Keane Keogh Nowlan Rowe Walder

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Re: Robert Oliver MORRIS
« Reply #8 on: Monday 19 May 14 17:30 BST (UK) »
I can see just 1 Robert Morris Welch Regt. on the SWB list that was discharged because of wounds & his no. is 13060. Enlisted 31/8/14, discharged 9/8/16.
There are others but their ages are wrong or cause of discharge (sickness).
May not be him of course.
Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
Census information is Crown copyright,from
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/