Name
Gwilym Morley
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
16/06/1944
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
5955181
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
2nd (Airborne) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
IA. C. 15.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St. Mark’s Church Memorial, Hitchin, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
He was born in Monmouthshire and at the time he enlisted was resident in Norfolk. He had worked for the Anglia Match factory in Letchworth. He volunteered at the age of 18 and served in the 2nd Battalion of the Ox & Bucks Regiment for a time until he was attached to the Parachute Regiment. His Service Number was 5955181.
He was killed in action in France during the bitter fighting in the St. Come area of France between British Paratroops and a German S.S. Division.
He was buried in Ranville War Cemetery in Plot la, Row C, Grave 15. He had lived with his brother, Mr T. Morley, from the time that he was aged 16, at 11, Mattocke Rd, Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Paul Johnson - local historian, Herts Pictorial dated 18th July 1944
