MORRIS, Jack

Credit: CWGC

Private

6th Battalion

Dorsetshire Regiment

Jack was born on the 29th of April 1881 at the House of Industry, Carisbrooke to Eliza Fanny MORRIS. On the 3rd of February 1909 at the United Methodist Chapel, Victoria Avenue in Shanklin, he married Fanny Winifred DAISH who was living at 'Avondale', Clarence Road in Wroxall around the time of Jack's death.

Before the War Jack had worked at the Appuldurcombe Dairy & delivered milk in & around Ventnor. At age 35, Jack was listed as Missing Presumed Killed in Action on the 23rd of March 1918. His body was never recovered or identified, & so Jack is commemorated by the Commission on the Arras Memorial to The Missing in France, together with 34,741 of his First World War comrades.

Jack is also remembered on the Wroxall War Memorial.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.