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Knightwick School Records:- Arnold William Morris Born: 30th July, 1888 Parents: William and Phoebe Morris Address: Darby's Common Father's occupation: Labourer Admission: 1st May, 1893 Left: 28th August, 1901 PRIVATE ARNOLD WILLIAM MORRIS Service Number: 3375 Regiment & Unit/Ship Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry 2nd/1st Bucks Bn. Date of Death Died 19 July, 1916. Age 27 years old Buried or commemorated at LOOS MEMORIAL Panel 84.B France		Pencil drawing by Private George Barrow, 6th Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 1917. [coloured]
Country of Service United Kingdom Additional Info Son of William and Phoebe Morris, of Darby's Common, Knightwick, Worcestershire; husband of Emily Lydia Morris, of Cherry Orchard Cottage, Potter Row, Great Missenden, Bucks. The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry The Great War 1914 - 1919    2nd Battalion (52nd Light Infantry) Early in 1916, the 2nd Battalion was moved to the area of Vimy Ridge  and Notre de Lorette, in relief of the French troops required for the defence of Verdun. It then moved south to the Somme battle of July 1916 attacking from Delville Wood towards Guillemont and Ginchy on 30 July and in the battle on the Ancre heights attacked the enemy trenches north of Beaumont Hamel on 13 November, on each occasion losing heavily in both officers and men. The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and French Third Republic against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of the upper reaches of the Somme, a river in France. The battle was intended to hasten a victory for the Allies. More than three million men fought in the battle of whom one million were wounded or killed, making it one of the deadliest battles in human history.

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