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Military service
Age:
48
Rank:
Lieutenant Colonel
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Garrison Artillery
Division:
80th Group,
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
March 25, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. M. 15.
Additional information
Son of the Hon. Alexander Morris, of Toronto, Ontario; husband of Emily C. Morris. Entered the British Army in 1890. Trained and took out No. 17 Siege Bty. to Gallipoli in 1915.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cochrane Morris
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War Memorial
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 218 Lt Col Robert Cochrane Morris (RMC 1885) was the son of the Hon. Alexander Morris, of Toronto, Ontario. He was the husband of Emily C. Morris. He entered the British Army in 1890. Trained and took out No. 17 Siege Bty. to Gallipoli in 1915. He served with the Royal Garrison Artillery, 80th Group. He died on 25 Mar 1917. He was buried in the Montreil British Cemetery in Nievre, France. -
Stained Glass Memorial
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 218 Lt Col Robert Cochrane Morris (RMC 1885) was the son of the Hon. Alexander Morris, of Toronto, Ontario. He was the husband of Emily C. Morris. He entered the British Army in 1890. Trained and took out No. 17 Siege Bty. to Gallipoli in 1915. He served with the Royal Garrison Artillery, 80th Group. He died on 25 Mar 1917. He was buried in the Montreil British Cemetery in Nievre, France. -
Memorial Doll
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 218 Lt Col Robert Cochrane Morris (RMC 1885) was the son of the Hon. Alexander Morris, of Toronto, Ontario. He was the husband of Emily C. Morris. He entered the British Army in 1890. Trained and took out No. 17 Siege Bty. to Gallipoli in 1915. He served with the Royal Garrison Artillery, 80th Group. He died on 25 Mar 1917. He was buried in the Montreil British Cemetery in Nievre, France. -
Grave marker
218 Lt Col Robert Cochrane Morris (RMC 1885) was the son of the Hon. Alexander Morris, of Toronto, Ontario. He was the husband of Emily C. Morris. He entered the British Army in 1890. Trained and took out No. 17 Siege Bty. to Gallipoli in 1915. He served with the Royal Garrison Artillery, 80th Group. He died of accidental injuries on 25 Mar 1917. He was buried in the Montreil British Cemetery in Nievre, France. -
Memorial
Memorial stairwell, Royal Military College of Canada -
Memorial
Memorial Arch, Royal Military College of Canada -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cochrane Morris
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cochrane Morris
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cochrane Morris
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cochrane Morris
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cochrane Morris
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cochrane Morris
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cochrane Morris
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 579 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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