JOSEPH LEONARD MILTHORP MORTON (1902-1904 : 22), Captain in the 22nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment, was the youngest son of Dr Edwin Morton, formerly resident in Wolverhampton and now of Oxford, where he is a Captain in the R.A.M.C.  Being still quite young when he left us, Morton had many years of school life before him, and these he divided between St. Edward’s School (Oxford), Berkhamsted, and the Perse School (Cambridge).  Then he became a student at Christ Church Oxford.  He was good in many departments of sport and specially distinguished himself in football, boxing and swimming.  He had been two years in France and was wounded several times.  His death on October 22nd 1917, was due to an act of manly devotion.  He had led his own company well forward, when he saw that the company on his right, its officers all down, was in difficulties.  Though already hit twice, he went to pull things together and was killed on the way.  Colonel, Company Commander, Chaplain and others unite in speaking of him as a fearless soldier and a gallant gentleman, whose loss would be acutely felt by the whole Battalion.