Morris, PH

2nd Lieutenant Philip Henry Morris

Born on December 20^th 1890, Phil was the youngest of five children of English farmer Arthur Morris and his Scottish wife Marian. He was born in Edinburgh, although by the time he was ten the family had moved to Orpington. In April 1902, by which point his elder brother George was already an OA, he joined Dulwich, and would go on to be at the College for the next five years, leaving in the summer of 1907. In his final year he was a member of the 2^nd team for both rugby and cricket. After leaving he took an apprenticeship with I. & E. Hall, an engineering firm based in Dartford, Kent, eventually qualifying as an engineer in his own right.

When war broke out in 1914 Phil was in Kuala Lumpur, having taken an engineering job there at the end of the previous year, and soon enlisted as a member of the Malay States Volunteer Rifles, with whom he served through the Singapore Mutiny of 1915. The following year he was offered a commission, returning to England in order to take it up in March 1917. He was ultimately assigned to the Machine Gun Corps, and went over to Flanders for the first time with his new unit late that August. After only six weeks at the front, on the morning of October 9^th, he was killed in action, shortly after capturing an objective near Passchendaele.