Harry became an engineer after leaving Wrekin, firstly in Argentina where he was a sectional engineer for the railways and then in Australia where he was employed by a steel products firm. It was in Australia too that Harry met and married his wife. Awarded the 'Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society's Silver Medal' and the 'Certificate of the Carnegie Hero Fund Trust' after he saved Roy Williams, aged 8, from drowning in the Shropshire Union Canal near Cow Lane Bridge; this was even more remarkable as Harry had just been discharged from Chester Royal Infirmary a week earlier following a serious illness. The shock was such as to necessitate his readmission to the hospital.

At the outbreak of war he joined the RAMC rising to the rank of Sergeant and was commissioned into the RE on 28th December 1942. Harry arrived in France shortly after D-Day but was killed in a car accident in Brussels on Sunday 9^th September 1945 at the age of 44 and is buried in the town cemetery.

Husband of Audrey Morris [neé Shawcross] of Wellington, Shropshire, father to three daughters: son of Allan Tom Morris & Marion Morris.

His eldest brother Lieutenant Allan Duncan Morris, also an OW, was killed in France in August 1918.

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Revised: November 2025