Remembering World War II

Name: Harold Morris Rank: Private Service Number: T/71324 Service: 3 Patrol Field Depot, Royal Army Service Corps, British Army Date of Birth: December 8, 1913 Place of Birth: Wentworth, Ontario Date of Enlistment: 1939 Place of Enlistment: Halifax County, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 25 Address at Enlistment: Halifax County, Nova Scotia Date of Death: December 26, 1944 Age: 31 Memorial: Dunkirk Memorial, France Reference: Column 141 Commemorated on Page 396 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on August 26 Gerald Harold Morris was the son of Harold Morris (1891-1917), and Muriel Beata (Bullock) Morris (1886-1967) of Melville Cove, Armdale in Halifax Co, Nova Scotia. Gerald was known by his middle name Harold. Harold’s father, Private Harold Morris (Service No. 111333), died during the First World War on October 31, 1917, at the age of 24. He was serving with the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment) of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, Belgium. A nephew Lt Col. The Rev. Gerald Wheterall Bullock (first C.O. of the WNSR). Harold sailed from Halifax, NS to the United Kingdom in February/March of 1939 and enlisted in the Royal Army Service Corps. Serving with 3 Petrol Field Depot of the Royal Army Service Corps in France, Harold and his entire unit were captured on May 20, 1940, by one of Rommel's advancing tank divisions. Harold was transported to Stalag XX-B Malbork in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Malbork County, Poland. Harold wrote to his mother in 1941 from the prison camp to report that he was healthy, working 11 hours a day in a lumber camp, and that he was receiving packages regularly from the Red Cross. Private Harold Morris endured internment for the entire war and tragically died while a prisoner of war the day after Christmas on December 26, 1944. His POW No. was 10678. With no known grave, he is remembered on the Dunkirk Memorial in France.

Harold Morris

Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial findagrave

Halifax Mail Star, 1941