Photograph of Harry Morse, British Army 1st Lieutenant WW1 (Photo Gallery)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Wednesday, May 03, 2017, 01:37 (2761 days ago) @ jerigby

There is a photograph in the Photo Gallery of a soldier in WW1 which is entitled "Harry Morse born Bream Eaves held rank of 1st Lieutenant WW1." ..... nor can I find a suitable Harry Morse in any records, apart from a Forces Record website which lists a Harry D Morse, Lieutenant WW1, but I don't subscribe to this so I can't view the record.

Can anyone help please?

Hi Janet,

Searching the National Archives Army Medal Cards gives nine "Harry Morse"s, perhaps the best matches are those in local Regiments, as follows, altho in truth our man may have served elsewhere so... ??

TNA site only gives this basic preview info;

Reference: WO 372/14/111259
Description:
Medal card of Morse, Harry
Corps Regiment No Rank
Devonshire Regiment 52083 Private
Gloucestershire Regiment 49616 Private

Reference: WO 372/14/111261
Description:
Medal card of Morse, Harry
Corps Regiment No Rank
Monmouthshire Regiment 266243 Private

Reference: WO 372/14/111262
Description:
Medal card of Morse, Harry
Corps Regiment No Rank
Royal Army Medical Corps 3007 Corporal

Reference: WO 372/14/111257
Description:
Medal card of Morse, Harry
Corps Regiment No Rank
Royal Engineers 8386 Sapper
Royal Engineers 388386 Sapper

Reference: WO 372/14/111285
Description:
Medal card of Morse, Harry L
Corps Regiment No Rank
Gloucestershire Regiment 17655 Private

More details including promotions should be written on these Cards, images with full details can be downloaded for £3.50 each from TNA site, or from Ancestry (sorry, I'm not currently a subscriber) including their free-to-use public Library edition.
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_fn=harry&_ln=morse&_no=&...

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Ref the card for Sapper Morse of the Engineers, a Forester would probably join them at Monmouth Castle, home of The Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia). Searching their excellent website's records confirms the TNA record enlisted as a Monmouth man, but sadly gives very little additional info;

Morse, H, Regimental number:8386
Age at enlistment: 28
Record of service: Served in First World War
http://www.monmouthcastlemuseum-archives.org.uk/regsearch.php?func=listsurnames

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Now seaching the CWWG site to see if any of the above died in the War, can find that

Pte MORSE, HARRY LAWSON, Glos Regt No: 17655, died 07/06/1917 age 24.
Son of James Thomas Morse, of Cheap St., Chedworth, Glos.

HOWEVER it must be remembered that our soldier may have been recorded as just "H.Morse", for which all these sites contain many more records.
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx?cpage=1

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Searching the net for "Harry D Morse" also gives a Genes Reunited site reference stating he was a "Surgeon Lieutenant" in 1914. I'm not a member so cannot access the file.
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/search/results?firstname=david&firstname_variants=tr...

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Finally for now, I can only find one likely man in this FoD FH site's Soldier Database;

Record_ID: 3874
Year: _
Surname: MORSE
Forename: H
Rank: Private
Regiment: Army Reserve
Service_Number: _
Residence: _
Notes_1: Enlisted 24_November_1915 _ _
Notes_2: _
Newspaper: _
Date_Published: _
Image: _
Soundex: M620

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I do hope that this info helps lead to your Lieutenant Harry Morse.

J.