Major Richard Fielding Morrison

Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Date published: 14/06/1918
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 25/04/1918
Age at death: 27
Cemetery: Haringhe (bandaghem) Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Plot: V.B. 21
Information: Major Richard Fielding Morrison M.C. and Bar, Royal Field Artillery, who died on April 25th from wounds received in action same day, was the eldest son of Lieut. Colonel R. Hobart Morrison, late 18th (Q.M.O.) Hussars, and Mrs. Hobart Morrison, of Johnstown House, Cabinteely, Co. Dublin, and was within five days of his 28th birthday. Educated at Wellington College, where he captained the Shooting eight, and at the R.M.A., Woolwich, he passed out at the head of the gunners' list, obtaining the Tombs Memorial Prize, in July, 1910, and joined the 126th Howitzer Battery at Dundalk, going on service with it in August, 1914 at Mons, and being present in all the subsequent fighting. In 1915 he joined the Royal Horse Artillery and became Adjt, of his Brigade. On promotion to Captain he was given, in 1916, command of a Battery Field Artillery, which he commanded till his death through all the battles on the Somme in 1916 and later in 1917, being wounded by a shell in October of that year. He was given the rank of Acting-Major in July, 1916. Mentioned in Despatches in 1915, and again since he fell, he had the Military Cross and Bar awarded for services in March last. He married in 1916 Effie, elder daughter of A.F. Ferrier, Esq., of Ash Hurst, Killiney, Co. Dublin.