Hubert Marmaduke Morris was born in Southport, Lancashire, in 1892 and joined the Manchester University Officer Training Corps immediately on the outbreak of war. Being impatient at the length of time that would elapse before he obtained his commission, he with some of his friends joined the University and Public Schools Battalion [20th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers], which was then being formed, as a private.
He trained with the battalion and went out to France in 1915. He was in various engagements and was wounded at the taking of High Wood, being shot through the left arm.
When sufficiently recovered from his wounds he was commissioned second lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers, and serving with the 1st/2nd Battalion, attached to the 15th (1st Salford Pals) Battalion in France was seriously wounded with gunshot in the abdomen, his left knee shot through and shattered, and a portion of his thigh had been carried away with shrapnel.
He died as a result of his wounds in 14th General Hospital on 17 August 1918, and is buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, France. He is also commemorated in the British Jewry Book of Honour.
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