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Cpl. Donald Alexander Sinclair Morris
British Army C Coy. 15th Btn. Royal Scots
from:Edinburgh
(d.26th Aug 1917)
Donald Morris was born in Edinburgh in 1885 to David and Isabella Morris (nee MacKay) and was the 5th of 8 children.
He was a soldier in the 15th Royal Scots, which was formed at Edinburgh in September 1914 by the Lord Provost. He was killed on the 26th of August 1917 in France and his name is listed on the Thiepval Memorial.
Donald's younger brother Thomas Anderson Morris (320295), born in 1894 in Edinburgh, was also killed in France on the 24th of March 1918 and is buried in the Doullens Communal Cemetery. He was a soldier in the Royal Army Medical Corps and died of wounds in the 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital, Doullens, France. The commanding officer of the hospital was Lt Col John McCrae, who wrote 'In Flanders Fields'.