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260847Mjr. William Landskroon Morrison MID
British Army Royal Engineers
from:Birmingham
My father, William Morrison who had arrived in the UK around 1937 to train and work at Stewart and Lloyds, a steel company based in Birmingham. He volunteered as a fireman at the outbreak of war, but eventually joined the Royal Engineers as part of the South African contingent in 1941. He was given the rank of second lieutenant. He took part in P.L.U.T.O., the mulberry harbours and in North Africa as part of the Royal Engineers, that travelled from North Africa to Sicily, Italy, Austria to manage construction, POW camps and so on. He brought home, to South Africa, a pair of wooden snow skis, a German cap badge, a Webley pistol, and the notion that he had somehow acquired a racehorse in Austria. He was discharged with the honorary rank of Major, there are two pictures that show him some time before his discharge, including one in what appears to be North Africa.He returned to South Africa in 1946, following his wife and five-year-old son who had returned in 1945. His wife had been evacuated to Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, after the outbreak of war. Their first son was born there. He was known as Bill, except to one or two close friends who called him "Dorp" because he was born in a very small town in the east of South Africa called Machadodorp.
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