Thomas Cuthbert MORROW

MORROW, Thomas Cuthbert

Service Number: 3178
Enlisted: 28 August 1916
Last Rank: Lance Corporal
Last Unit: 46th Infantry Battalion
Born: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 1882
Home Town: Cottesloe, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Manager
Died: Died of wounds, Belgium, 12 October 1917
Cemetery: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
Plot XX, Row J, Grave No. 20,
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Cottesloe Life Saving & Athletic Club WW1 Honor Roll, Fremantle Fallen Sailors & Soldiers Memorial, Mosman Park Memorial Rotunda
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World War 1 Service

28 Aug 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3178, 46th Infantry Battalion
29 Dec 1916: Involvement Private, 3178, 46th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: ''
29 Dec 1916: Embarked Private, 3178, 46th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Persic, Fremantle
12 Oct 1917: Involvement Lance Corporal, 3178, 46th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3178 awm_unit: 46th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-10-12

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Thomas Cuthbert Morrow was the eldest son of Hugh Wilson Morrow and Barbara Johnston. He was the husband of May Morrow, Cottesloe, West Australia, and father to a 6 year old son Hugh Morrow.  

Thomas Morrow arrived in France during June 1917. He was severely wounded near Passchendaele when hit by multiple pieces of shrapnel. Although taken to a Casualty Clearing Station he died the same day, 12 October 1917.

In an article in the Perth Daily News dated 27 October 1917, it was reported “The many friends of the late Mr. Thomas Cuthbert Morrow, formerly of Cottesloe, and The Bairds Co., Ltd., Perth, will learn with deep regret that during this week news has been received in Perth of his death from wounds while fighting in France. All who knew him recognised in him a man of sterling worth, because of the uprightness and integrity which possessed him. Mr. Morrow was 35 years of age, and the eldest son of the late Mr. H. W. Morrow, of the firm of Messrs Cuthbert, Morrow, and Must, solicitors, of Ballarat, Victoria. He was one of three brothers, all of whom, enlisted in the Imperial Forces, one of them having some twelve months before also died of wounds received in France, thus leaving only one son, and he still away fighting in France. For many years Mr. Morrow was manager for The Bairds Co. in their Kalgoorlie branch, and was afterwards transferred to the Perth stores to be manager of the hardware branch. Mr. Morrow leaves a mother, brother, three sisters, a wife and two sons, also a very large circle of friends and acquaintances.

His brother, Lieutenant Andrew Duncan Morrow, 59th Battalion AIF, also died of wounds inflicted at Fromelles on the 21 July 1916, aged 30.

Another brother Lieutenant Hugh Gordon Morrow 39th Battalion AIF, was returned to Australia on the orders of the GOC AIF (Birdwood) 5 April 1918, on account of the death of his two brothers.

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