Second Lieutenant Francis St. Vincent Morris
3rd Sqdn., Royal Flying Corps who died on 29 April 1917 Age 21
Son of Canon Ernest E. Morris, M.A., T.D., J.P., and Josephine Morris, of The Vicarage, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Educated at Brighton College and Wadham College, Oxford.
Also served with 3rd Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Location of Grave: Officers, B. 6. 5. St Sever Cemetery, Rouen.
CWGC - Casualty Details
Also found this:
2nd Lieutenant Francis St Vincent MORRIS (1896-1917). Born 21 February 1896, Blackwell Vicarage, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, the youngest son of Canon and Mrs Morris. Educated Brighton College, where he was at school when the War started. At the end of summer term, 1915, he was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Sherwood Foresters, the same regiment in which his father had served as chaplain. Once he realized his chances of getting to France were not favorable, he transferred into the Royal Flying Corps. A few weeks after his arrival at No. 3 Squadron, in France, in April 1917, he crashed during a blizzard at Vimy Ridge, fracturing both legs, one of which had to be amputated. He died on 29 April, three weeks after his crash, while under anaesthetic during a second surgery. He was 21. 2nd Lt Morris was buried at St Sever Cemetery, Rouen
You may be interested in the 3 Sqn Association Web Site:
http://www.3fsquadronassociation.com/
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