Photo: B. Chandler
The headstone reads:
In loving memory of
P.O. Robert Morris
beloved son of
John Robert & Mary Jane
Morris
of Cambois
who was wounded in action
in France August 21st 1918,
died Sept. 27th 1918
aged 25 years.
The above
Mary Jane Morris
died Jany. 26th 1940
aged 69 years
Also the above
John Robert Morris,
died May 28th 1947
aged 80 years.
Colin Boyd has submitted the following:
Robert was born on 7th July 1893. He was working as a miner living with his father, John Robert at 15, Chapel Row, Cambois, Blyth when he enlisted in the Durham Light Infantry on 1st September 1914.
After transferring to the RNVR on 10th September 1914 he joined the Anson Battalion on 22nd October 1914 and served until 1st September 1915 when he was hospitalised suffering from piles.
Robert rejoined the Anson Battalion on 24th February 1916 and was then posted to the Base Depot at Mudros on 16th May 1916. He rejoined the Anson Battalion on 26th November 1916 and was invalided to the UK on 15th November 1917 suffering from contusion to the hip and back caused by a shell.
Robert rejoined the Anson Battalion yet again in France on 8th July 1918 and was badly wounded on 21st August 1918 which required that he was invalided to the UK on 10th September 1918.
Robert died at 4.20 pm on 27th September 1918 in the Bellahouston Scottish National Red Cross Hospital, Glasgow from the effects of shrapnel wounds to the left leg and face and Purulent Meningitis.
Derek Johnstone and Carole Fife have provided the following:
Robert Morris was born on July 1st 1893 at Cambois Northumberland. His parents were John Robert Morris from Bedlington and Mary Jane Morris from Cambois. His father was a hewer in the coal mines.
In 1901 the Morris family lived at Bridge Street, Cambois, at which time Robert was 7 and siblings in the household included Margaret, 5 and James aged 3.
The 1911 Census shows Robert, now 17, working in the coal mines as a pony driver and living with his family at 15, Chapel Row Cambois.
Military records show Robert was wounded in France in August 1918 and he died September 17th 1918. The Royal Navy and Royal Marine War Graves Roll 1915-1919 confirm his rank as Leading Seaman (HG). Roberts’s effects went to his father indicating he was probably not married.
Robert Morris is remembered in Cambois on C6.02
