AMPHLETT-MORTON James Fairfax

  • First Name(s):
    James 
    Fairfax 
  • Surname:
    AMPHLETT-MORTON
  • Service Number:
    J0
  • Rank:

    Second Lieutenant

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    King's Royal Rifle Corps
  • Battalion:
    6th Battalion
  • Unit:
    6th Battalion attached 2nd Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    10th January 1915
  • Age At Death:
    24
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Brown's Road Military Cemetery, Festubert, France, Grave V. E. 15.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of James Amphlett Morton and Edith Mary Morton of Puxton House, Kidderminster, Worcestershire

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AMPHLETT-MORTON James Fairfax Is Named On These Memorials

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Kidderminster War Memorial as J.F.A. Morton. Wolverley St John the Baptist ChurchWW1 Memorial as J.F.A. Morton with the information: 2nd Lieut 2nd Bn K.R.R.C. Wolverley Memorial Hall as J.F.A. Morton with the information: 2-Lieutenant Kings Royal Rifle Corps.

Further Information About AMPHLETT-MORTON James Fairfax

Additional information on the memorial: with the information: 2 Lt 2 K.R.R. Jan. 11. 1915.

Mentioned in Despatches.

Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for army casualties located in Worcester Cathedral.

The following information has been researched by Alan Morton:
De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour
MORTON, JAMES FAIRFAX AMPHLETT,
2nd Lieutenant, 6th (Reserve) Battalion, attached 2nd, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 2nd son of James Amphlett Morton, of Puxton House, Kidderminster, by his wife, Edith Mary, daughter of the Reverend John Garland, Vicar of Ombersley, Worcestershire; born Puxton House, aforesaid, 6 May, 1892; and was educated at Repton and Clare College, Cambridge, where he rowed stroke in his college boat in the May Races, 1914. On the outbreak of war he at once applied for a commission through the University O.T.C. and was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant to the 7th (Service Battalion K.R.R.C., early in September 1914. After spending three weeks at a training camp for officers at Royston, Hertfordshire, he joined his battalion at Aldershot, but was subsequently transferred to the 6th (Reserve) Battalion at Sheerness. He left for France at the end of November 1914, and was attached to the 2nd K.R.R.C. (2nd Brigade, 1st Division). He was killed in action near Le Bassée, 10 January 1915, during a counter-attack by the enemy to recover one of their trenches against which he had just led a successful assault. Buried in a garden at Cuinchy; unmarried. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915.

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