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Joseph Morton
On Ancestry site Military records, T /Lieutenant Joseph Leonard Milthorpe Morton (A
rd
nd
Captain), 23 Battalion, Manchester Regiment, killed in action, 22 October 1917.
Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 120 to 124 and 162 to 162A and 163A, Belgium.
Tyne Cot Memorial – source:-www.findagrave.com
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial and St Stephen’s C. of E. School war memorial, Redditch.
(On his probate records he had been living 123 Woodstock Road, Oxford and he was killed near Poelcapelle,
France. His father was Edwin Morton, MD who on the 1891 census had been a Physician and surgeon at 12
Church Green East, Redditch. On 1911 census Joseph Leonard Milthorpe Morton born 1895, Redditch, was
boarding at School House, Berkhampstead.)
Joseph Leonard Milthorpe Morton – source:-Ancestry site family tree (Weller/Jones family tree-Michel Jones)
and in Redditch Remember the Fallen Heroes Book
He is remembered on Cambridgeshire, Perse School Roll of Honour at:- http://www.roll-of-
honour.com/Cambridgeshire/CambridgePerseSchool.html
He is also remembered at:- http://www.misterbrownriggsboys.co.uk/theboys/
Which states that no less than 48 old boys from Magdalen College School, Oxford were killed in the carnage of
the Great War.
and remembered at:- http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/visiting-and-learning/first-world-war-memorial
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