LEST WE FORGET
Corporal Godfrey Eustace MORRIS
Service No: 12205
Born: Presteign, Wales, 13 May 1908
Enlisted in the RAAF: 12 February 1940 (at RAAF Station Richmond NSW)
Unit: Central Flying School
Died: Drowned, near Tamworth NSW, 11 July 1942, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Tamworth General Cemetery, NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Henry Frederick and Annie Mary Morris; husband of Marie Eileen Morris, of St. Kilda, Victoria
Roll of Honour: Yarram South VIC
Remembered: Panel 116, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 11 July 1942, Corporal Morris, a Fitter II Airframe, was missing in flood waters when on duty at Tamworth. Part of the aerodrome at Tamworth and adjacent paddocks were covered with flood water from the Peel River which had overflowed its banks due to heavy rains. Corporal Morris had been endeavouring to release some horses on one of the flooded paddocks and was swept away by the flood waters and drowned.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/145/251