Photo: Brian Chandler
In Seghill (Holy Trinity) Churchyard) is a family headstone in the form of an open book, which reads:
Left hand page
In loving
Memory of
Matthew
Beloved husband of
Hannah B. Morris
New Hartley
Who died March 5th 1917
Aged 55 years.
Their son
Sto. Fenwick Morris
Was lost on H.M.S. Natal
….30th 1915 aged 20 years.
Their son
. . . Morris
(the rest cannot be seen).
Right hand page
Their son
Pte Henderson Morris
Fell in action July 31
1917, aged ?26 years.
Also Hannah
P. Morris
Died March 2nd 1938
Aged 74 years.
Fenwick lived at 21 Melton Terrace, New Hartley. HMS Natal suffered internal explosions while anchored at Cromarty Firth, Scotland. At 3.25pm the ship sent a signal to say that she was on fire; at 3.30pm it was reported that she had turned over and her bilge was showing and at 3.45pm she was reported sunk.
Acknowledgements: Ron Carson.
Fenwick Morris is remembered in New Hartley on N50.02 and N50.04 where his name is spelled "Morriss", and on our List of Ships’ crews
