Born Beverley, 23/01/1896. Son of David and Grace Morley, of Aragon House, North Bar Without, Beverley, Yorks. His father ran the Beverley Arms Hotel.
Educated at Beverley Grammar School; was studying Law and passed the intermediate exam in November 1914. He enlisted in the 12th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, the following month. Served in France from September 1915. Went to Salonika in November, in November 1915. Returned to England in July 1916. Obtained a Commission, in the 4th East Yorkshire Regiment, on 16/12/1916. Returned to France, on 23/01/1917. Killed in action, while reconnoitering around Arras, on 16/06/1917, aged 21. A brother Officer, wrote “He was a great favourite of ours owing to his invariably cheerful disposition and his kind, thoughtfulness for his men.”
He is buried at Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France.
Commemorated in the UK, De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour, 1914-1919, Volume 3.
