Capt William Ronald Morton window - All Saints - Harmston, Lincolnshire - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

Stained glass window with Morton Family Arms on Tree of Life dedicated to Capt William Ronald Morton in All Saints' church, Harmston.

Inscription -
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
IN MEMORY OF OUR BROTHER
WILLIAM RONALD MORTON
CAPT 2/8 ROYAL WARWICK-
SHIRE REGIMENT WHO FELL
IN ACTION ON MAY 4TH 1917
NEAR ST QUENTIN FRANCE, AGED 27

"Captain William Ronald Morton was born at Brant Broughton on 13 March 1890. His father William Henry Morton had bought Harmston Hall in 1891, when William Ronald was just one year old, and the family lived there until 1898. He was educated at Rugby School before going up to Christchurch College, Oxford in 1909. On 24 February 1914, he married Blanche Ellen Wilson at St Peter’s Church, Cranley Gardens, London. Morton joined the Army on 2 Sep 1914, initially in the Royal Fusiliers according to his medals record; he subsequently transferred to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, where he was commissioned.

Morton, with the 2/5th and 2/8th Royal Warwickshire Regiment, would have gone to France as part of the 48th (South Midland) Division, a formation of the Territorial Force. The units of the Division had just departed for annual summer camp when emergency orders recalled them to the home base. All units were mobilised for full time war service on 5 August 1914 and moved to concentrate in the Chelmsford area by mid August 1914.

On 13 March 1915 the Division was warned that it would go on overseas service and entrainment began a week later. By 3 April the Division had concentrated near Cassel. The Division then remained in France and Flanders until late 1917. During 1917 it took part in the German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line, in which the Division occupied Peronne, and the Third Battles of the Ypres. Morton was killed in action between these events on the night of 4th May 1917, at Savy, 6.5 kilometres west of St Quentin. He is buried at Savy British Cemetery.

Savy British Cemetery is on the south-western outskirts of the village, on the west side of the road to Roupy. Savy was taken by the 32nd Division on the 1st April 1917, after hard fighting, and Savy Wood on the 2nd. On the 21st March 1918 Savy and Roupy were successfully defended by the 30th Division, but the line was withdrawn after nightfall. The village and the wood were retaken on the 17th September 1918 by the 34th French Division, fighting on the right of the British IX Corps.Savy British Cemetery was made in 1919, and the graves from the battlefields and from the following small cemeteries in the neighbourhood were concentrated into it."

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