Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Married Gloria Margaret McKeevers on 21 Dec 1940 at Brisbane.

"Word has been received by Mrs H. V. Morgan that her husband, Driver Morgan, who enlisted in 1940, is posted missing in Malaya." - from the Brisbane Telegraph 07 Oct 1942 (nla.gov.au)

Harold was the youngest of three children of Charles Leonard Morgan (born 1886 in Rockhampton, QLD) and Clara Butler Burrows (born 1892 in Charters Towers, QLD). Charles was a Miner in Charters Towers in 1911 when he married Clara, and the family moved to Bundamba in Ipswich, QLD following the birth of their second child in 1916. Following Charles' death in 1931, Clara moved to NSW where she remarried.

Harold had been living in Toowoomba, QLD and working as a Motor Transport Driver when he enlisted in the Australian Army in Brisbane in July 1940. In December that year he married Gloria Margaret McKeevers (born 1923 in Brisbane, QLD) in Brisbane. Harold was a Private (Service No:QX26201) with No 1 Coy AASC when he embarked for Singapore on 2 February 1941 on board HMT QXI. He was Reported Missing and on 9 September 1943 reported as a PoW of the Japanese interned at Osaka PoW Camp, Takefu, Fukui. Satako Tagure, writing in the Japanese Times (4 May 2004) stated that 'Severe conditions (at the more that 130 Allied PoW camps on mainland Japan) at worksites and camps resulted in at least 3,500 deaths from starvation, various diseases and ill treatment......Because the Japanese Government was afraid that it would be accused of the conditions at PoW camps after the war, they ordered all the camps to destroy the related records when the war ended). Harold was recovered from the Japanese on 19 September 1945 and embarked from Manila for Sydney NSW on board HMT Formidable on 13 October 1945. He was Discharged on 22 November 1945.

Harold worked as a Truck Driver in Boonah and Toowoomba before retiring to the Gold Coast, QLD. Gloria continued living in Brisbane, and in 1958 remarried. Harold died in 2008.