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The War Memorial for Claygate (Surrey)
Photo © DeeGeeBee51
The War Memorial for Claygate, Surrey, is situated in a small garden beside
Holy Trinity Parish Church on Church Lane.
44 names from the First World War are commemorated on the memorial.
A transcription of the names found on this memorial, together with brief biographies,
can be found on the Esher
District Local Family History Society website.
One Officer who served with the Yorkshire Regiment is commemorated on the memorial.
Captain John Cecil Morgan. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire
Regiment.
Son of J. H. Morgan, C.V.O. husband of Truda Morgan, of Fearn, Claygate, Surrey.
M.A. Trinity College, Oxford. Served in the South African War. Killed 7 August
1915. Aged 39.
Buried AZMAK CEMETERY, SUVLA.
(Born in London, 24 October 1875, son of John Hammond Morgan, CVO, FRCS. 2nd
Lieutenant 20 December 1899. Resigned 8 September 1909. Appointed to the 6th
Service Battalion 4 October 1914. Killed in action at the taking of Lala Baba,
7 August 1915.)
The following comments are from Robert Coulson's Biographies
of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"John Morgan was born in London on October 24th 1875, the son of John
Hammond Morgan CVO, FRCS. He attended Trinity College at Oxford after which
he pursued a military career being commissioned as a 2nd Lt in December of
1899.
He saw action in the Boer War and had risen to the rank of Captain when he
resigned from the army in September 1909.
Returning to the colours at the onset of war he joined the 6th Battalion on
October 4th 1914. Captain Morgan sailed with the battalion from Liverpool
and arrived in Mudros Bay on July 10th 1915, from here moving to the island
of Imbros for training and acclimatisation.
In the early hours of August 7th the battalion were towed ashore and landed
at Suvla Bay on the Gallipoli peninsula. With Captain Morgan in charge of
“A” company they left the beach and attacked the Turkish held
hill of Lala Baba. There was fighting all day but by midnight Lala Baba had
been taken.
Captain John Cecil Morgan was killed in this attack on August 7th 1915 aged
39.
Captain Morgan was the husband of Truda Morgan of Fearn, Claygate in Surrey."
Captain
Morgan's Name on the War Memorial for Claygate (Surrey)
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