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PERCY JAMES MORGAN (1909-1912 :
22), who was born on October 26th 1895, was an orphan and only son,
with an only sister, Miss Morgan, of Newcombe Road, Handsworth.
After a period of three years at the school, he left to enter the works
of the Sunbeam Motor Car Company. As
soon as war broke out he enlisted in the South Staffordshire Regiment and, after
the necessary training, went out to Gallipoli and bore a meritorious share in
the Sulva Bay operations. Here the
roof of his mouth was shattered by a sniper’s bullet that had first killed the
man next to him, and the injury necessitated his return to England and
relegation to sedentary work. On
recovery he joined the Royal Flying Corps and soon became known for his
capability and thorough mastery of the mechanical side of aviation, as well as
for the excellence of his work in preparing machines for flight.
His death took place at Fowlmere, Royston, near Cambridge, on July 12th
1918, as the result of a collision in which his companion and the occupant of
the colliding aeroplane also perished and his own machine was destroyed by fire.
His body was brought home for burial at Penn Fields.
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