BORN HULL 1892. A PAINT GRINDER AND LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, ON 11/09/1914. SERVED IN EGYPT. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 08/03/1916. KILLED IN ACTION, AT SERRE, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 24. CHARLES AND HIS BROTHER ERNEST MORLEY (BOTH EYR) WERE LISTED ON HULL’S NICHOLSON STREET ROLL OF HONOUR.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. SGT CHARLES FREDERICK MORLEY 12/53. Born in July 1892 Charles was one of two sons to Frederick Morley of 45 Boulevard, Hull. He appears to have spent at least some of his childhood being raised by his grandmother Jane Lodge. A Pawnbroker’s Assistant by trade he enlisted at City Hall on 11th September 1914 joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Hull Pals. Promoted to Sergeant, Charles’s war was that of the Pals- training in the UK until December 1915, Egypt until February 29th 1916 and then on to France and the trenches of the Western Front. Charles was killed in action during the last desperate action of the Somme campaign as he attacked German positions around Serre trying to straighten a dangerous salient in the line before the winter set in. His body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial; he was 24 years old.
