Arthur William MORRIS

MORRIS, Arthur William

Service Number: NX145684
Enlisted: 27 February 1942
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 11th Infantry Brigade Headquarters
Born: Hay, New South Wales, Australia, 4 January 1922
Home Town: Hay, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Accidental (Aircraft accident), Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 7 March 1943, aged 21 years
Cemetery: Cairns War Cemetery, Queensland
Plot A. Row A. Grave 16.
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Freshwater Crash of De Havilland Dragon Memorial Plaque
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Lieutenant, NX145684, 11th Infantry Brigade Headquarters
27 Feb 1942: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, NX145684

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of William Thomas Morris and Edith Janet Windsor Morris, of Hay, New South Wales.

Biography contributed by David Barlow

De Havilland Dragon A34-24 was on hire from McRobertson and Muir Airways of the Northern Territory and was being used for courier work around far north Queensland by RAAF Number 5 Communications Flight when it crashed in the Jigol Peak area in Freshwater Gorge near Cairns (Crystal Cascade) during a flight from Cairns to Mareeba

Killed were:

Sergeant Lindsay James Sutherland McColl, pilot, 405796

Brigadier John Crawford NX378 DSO Commander of 11 Brigade

Lieutenant Arthur William Morris of the 26th Battalion NX145684

Two seriously injured survivors were found four days after the crash wandering around in the bush: Lieutenant Colonel Philip Heathcote George Cardale NX483 of the 31st Battalion / Australian Army Staff Corps (discharged April 1947)

Aircraftman Ronald Henry Appleby 412876 RAAF crewman (discharged March 1946)

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