No. 5826407, Corporal, Frank Clarence MORTON
Aged 23
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Frank Clarence Morton was born in 1918 (1st qtr 1918 Ely 3b:650 ), son of Frederick C. and Beatrice M. MORTON (née LEE).
In the 1921 census, aged 3, he was at 12 Longley Road, Rochester with his uncle Philip Andrew BRUCE [28] butcher born Camberwell; his aunt Florence May BRUCE [28] (née LEE) born Ely. His mother had died in 1st qtr 1918 in Ely (about the time of Frank's birth) and his father married Winifred M. Dawson in 1921. In the 1939 register, his father and stepmother were at Great Green Farm, Cockfield |
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The Army Roll of Honour has his residence in 1940 as Suffolk.
In January 1940 the Battalion were in the area around Halstroff, 25 or so miles NE of Metz. The main problem was the snow, not the Germans, and of course those Army favourites, marches and exercises. There was the occasionally contact with the German, and their snipers and some shelling, but otherwise it was still "the Phoney War". It has not been established whether Frank was actually killed or died of illness.
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