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William Arthur Charles Morris 1916 - 1944

William Arthur Charles Morris of New Malden, Surrey CountyEngland United Kingdom was born in 1916 in London, and died at age 27 years old in 1944. William Morris was buried at Bari War Cemetery Xv C in England.

William Arthur Charles Morris
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New Malden, Surrey CountyEngland United Kingdom
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1916
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1944
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    MORRIS, William Arthur Charles, Flying Officer, RAFVR, Service Number 140870, age 28 (birth registered Mar.Qr.1916, London), killed 03.Apr.1944 after bailing out of Bristol Beaufighter Mk.VI serial KW123. Body recovered from the sea off Manfredonia, Italy, on 16 April. Death Registration: "War Deaths (RAF - All Ranks) 1939-1948, 1944 Vol 10 Page 463". Buried at Bari War Cemetery, Italy, grave number XV.C.1. Son of Charles W. MORRIS and Winifred R. MORRIS née ARMOUR; husband of Sibyl Marion MORRIS née CLAXTON of Hillesden, Buckinghamshire. Probate records show the casualty's home address as 5 Maldon Court, West Barnes Lane, New Maldon, Surrey. See records of No.255 Squadron, RAF.
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    Service number: 140870 Rank: Flying Officer Regiment: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Unit/ship/squadron: 255 Sqdn.
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In 1916, in the year that William Arthur Charles Morris was born, suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.
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In 1920, he was only 4 years old when Italian born factory worker Nicola Sacco and fish peddler Bartolomeo Vanzetti were picked up by police on May 5th in connection with the April 15th murder and robbery of a guard and a paymaster at the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in South Braintree, Mass. Although in later years they were thought to be innocent, they were anarchists and were convicted of the crime and put to death.
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Morris, George (Born May 16, 1870) Morris-Dimick, Alice (Born May 13, 1844) Morris, Julia (Born Mar 6, 1921) Morris, Elton (Sep 1, 1921 - Dec 10, 2003) Snead/morris, Katherine (Born Jan 16, 1912) Morris, Harold (Born Aug 21, 1898) Morris, Jane (Born Jan 24, 1824) Morris, Sarah (Born Jun 24, 1850) Morris, Essie (Born May 22, 1907) Morris-Wheeler, Sarah (Born 1851)
Morris, Clara (Nov 7, 1927 - May 12, 1992) Morris, Benajamin (Born 1844) Morris, Elizabeth (Born 1874) Morris, Dora (Born Dec 11, 1886) Morris, Loy (Jan 1, 1923 - Apr 1981) Morris, Billie (Born Jul 4, 1944) Morris, Gracie (Born Apr 1, 1926) Morris, Georgia Anne Tanner (Born Jan 8, 1850) Morris, Crawford (Born Aug 7, 1891) Morris, Emory (Born Dec 14, 1862)
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