Remembering Herbert Lewis Morgan of St John’s College
Born: Unknown
Died: 8th December 1917 in Yepres, Belgium. Killed in action, aged 26.
Buried: Butts New British Cemetery (NZ) Memorial, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Herbert Lewis Morgan was enrolled at St John’s Theological College just before the war, between 1913 and 1914 and had also attended Auckland University College. He embarked on a troopship in December 1914 where he was transported to fight in Gallipoli and then Egypt. Later he was transferred to the Western Front where he was killed fighting in Yepres, Belgium. He was a Second Lieutenant in the Auckland Infantry Battalion.
100th Anniversary Display Note
To mark the 100th anniversary of the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli an exhibition was held at the John Kinder Theological Library displaying books and archives, as well as biographies of the St John’s Theological College students who served and were killed during World War One.
These biographies will be posted on this blog over the next week including some significant discoveries we have made while researching these students.