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The First World War Memorial for Trinity College, Oxford
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Photo by kind permission of Sharon
Cure, the Trinity College Librarian.
Trinity College Library, Broad Street, Oxford was erected in 1928 as a memorial to 155 members of the College who fell in the First World War (only slightly fewer, 133, died in the Second World War).
The names of those who lost their lives in the First World War are commemorated on a wooden board inside the building and include one Officer of the Yorkshire Regiment. Also amongst those commemorated is the double VC winner, Noel Godfrey Chavasse.
The Greek inscription on the memorial is from Pericles' funeral oration for the dead of the Pelopnnesian War (Thucydides Book II Chapter 43) which translates as "Giving their bodies, they received undying praise".
The photos were kindly provided by Sharon Cure, the Trinity College Librarian.
Captain John Cecil Morgan. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of J. H. Morgan, C.V.O. husband of Truda Morgan, of Fearn, Claygate, Surrey.
M.A. Trinity College, Oxford. Served in the South African War. Killed 7 August
1915. Aged 39
Buried AZMAK CEMETERY, SUVLA.
(Born in London, 24 October 1875, son of John Hammonf Morgan, CVO, FRCS. 2nd
Lieutenant 20 December 1899...... Resigned 8 September 1909. Appointed to
the 6th Service Battalion 4 October 1914. Killed in action at the taking of
Lala Baba, 7 August 1915.)
Captain
Morgan's Name (1894) on the First World War Memorial for Trinity College,
Oxford.
Photo by kind permission of Sharon
Cure, the Trinity College Librarian.
The First World War Memorial for Trinity College, Oxford, situated at the
end of Library in this photo.
Photo by kind permission of Sharon
Cure, the Trinity College Librarian.
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