John W Morris

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Rev. John William Morris M.A. (b. 11th March 1892 - d. 19th January 1945) Also Known as Sion or Jack.

Born in 1892 in Aberdovey, Wales to Captain William James Morris (of the ship S.S. City of Hankow) and Catherine Morris. He grew up at 11 Sea View Terrace, Terrace Rd, Aberdovey until 1914 when The Great War brokeout. He answered his countries call and signed up in 1915 joining the Royal Army Medical Corps as a private and later he became a stretcher bearer at the Somme and Passchendale. During his time in France, he was gassed and later suffered with shellshock. He was admitted to Sunderland Military Hospital and then to Netley Royal Victoria Hospital in Southampton.

After the war he trained as a minister at various Universities such as Durham, Edinburgh and others. A chance meeting back home in Aberdovey in 1922 he met Annie Myfanwy Daniel, who he was later to marry.

John and Annie married in 1924 at Chapelknowe in Scotland.

He ministered in Hove, Brighton, Aviemore(where his first child Meiriona was born in 1928), Aberdovey and Jarrow(where his second and last child William Stuart Daniel was born in 1934).

After leaving Ellison Street Presbyterian Church, Jarrow in 1932, he joined the Church of Scotland as a minister of Dalton Parish in Dumfriesshire. and there he stayed until his death.

On the 1st hour of the morning of the 19th of January 1945, he died at 'The Manse' in Dalton from Heart Failure and a collapsed lung, doctors commented that these were the results of his gassing during The Great War. He died aged 52.

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