Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Natural causes is attributed those deaths due to causes that were not directly associated with the war. Included in this are wartime deaths resulting from, for example, theSpanish Influenza pandemic and its associated pneumonia problems and other attributions such as age and exhaustion. It also groups those who through Post Traumatic Stress committed suicide as a result of their experiences.

Detail :

Hugh was the son of Captain Hugh and Laura Jones Morris of Glyndwr, Barmouth. He served with the Mercantile Marine about the Elder Dempster steamship SS Benue. Whilst the ship was anchored at Sierra Leone in September, 1918, Hugh became ill and died 16th September, 1918, aged 35. His brother John was killed at Mametz Wood in 1916.

His father was a Freemason of the same lodge,

Probate MORRIS Hugh Cynhaiarn of Glyndwr Barbouth [sic] Merionethshire fourth officer in ss. Benue died 16 September 1918 at Sierra Leone West Africa Administration St. Asaph 11 January to Hugh Morris master mariner (retired). Effects £113 11s. 9d.

Masonic :

Listed as a 34 year old Mariner from Barmouth in 1917, at the time of his initiation. The contribution record shows "Died 4.8.18."

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley