Name
Norman Archibald Morice
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/03/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
East Yorkshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
II. A. 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial, St. Mary's Church Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born 13th April 1894 Norwood Surrey. Baptised 29th September 1894 Rickmansworth.
In the 1901 census the family is living at Frogmore House, Harefield Road, Rickmansworth. The father William A Morice is a broker on the stock exchange. The mother Laura was born in Norwood. Norman is aged 6 and Cyril F is aged 3. The children had been born in Rickmansworth.
Norman was educated at Malvern College. This tribute was published in the school magazine The Malvernian in April 1916. "Norman Morice, like all the members of his family, entered with the keenest zest into all branches of school life. A good worker, of a disposition which endeared him to everybody, masters as well as boys, good at games, he will be mourned by all with whom he came in contact. He was at home on leave only a few weeks ago, and seemed most keen on his adopted profession. Very soon after his return he was seriously wounded, but his letters were cheerful and bright, and made light of his injuries, so that all his friends were unprepared for the sad news of his death. He was a keen member of the Choir, having, when he first came, a very good treble voice. He sang many solos in Chapel and at School Concerts. He was intended for a business career, but on the outbreak of war joined the 7th Bn. E. Yorks Regt., in which regiment we learn from his Colonel he was one of the most promising officers."
Wartime Service
He joined the OTC when at school at Malvern. Was commissioned into the East Yorkshire Regiment on 3rd October 1914.
Died of a compound fracture of his right thigh caused by gunshot in the 7th Stationary Hospital at Boulogne at 2.10 am on 11th March 1916 aged 21 (just 1 month shy of his 22nd birthday). He had been injured some days previously and his parents received a telegram dated 10th March saying he had been dangerously wounded. In the first week of February 1916 he had been shot in his knees when coming off a wiring party.
Temporary Second Lieutenant
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Robert and Sally Williams
