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.
Henderson lived at 21 Melton Terrace, New Hartley. He was born in Blyth and enlisted at New Hartley. He served with the 6th/7th Battalion and was formerly (4851, Private) Army Cyclist Corps.
Acknowledgements: Ron Carson.
Henderson Morris is remembered in New Hartley on N50.02 and N50.04 where his name is spelled "Morriss"
