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|Surname and forenames=Morris Harold
|Army number=4277397
|Rank=Lance Corporal
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=20/5/1912 (this suggests that his age at death might have been recorded incorrectly by CWGC).  Birth registered Q2 1912 Newcastle upon Tyne.
|Age=35 at the time of his death (possibly should read 32).
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED 15/11/1944 at Iruka Camp in Japan.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Not yet known.
|Promotions=Lance Corporal.
|Wounded=Yes - injured in mine accident at the surface in Iruka and died of those multiple injuries.
|Prisoner of War=Yes - captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore when the force was surrendered.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED 15/11/1944 - cause of death - multiple injuries from surface accident at mine.  Cremated at Iruka 16/11/1944 - service conducted by Lieutenant Wadsworth, Royal Corps of Signals.  Initial interment of the ashes - details inscribed on urn.  Urn interred 9/3/1946 in British wall niche, Yokohama Mausoleum.    Urn re-interred 16/9/1946 in Grave M.B.11. British Section, Yokohama War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads - "AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER YOU".  Probate granted 11/5/1946 at Newcastle upon Tyne to Joseph Morris, retired electrician (Harold's father).
|Home address=Son of Joseph and Daisy Morris of Newcastle upon Tyne.   At the time of the 1939 General Register he was a single man living with his parents at 101 Dinsdale Road, Newcastle upon Tyne and working as a Clerk with the N.E.E.S.Company. 
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