C.S.M. A. E. MORRIS
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Born: Q1 1888 Bridgnorth RD Albert Edward Morris. [GRO]
[Possibly born 1887 and registered later - see CWGC entry.]
Mar: probably Q3 1916 Atcham. Albert E Morris & Sarah E Clifft. [GRO]

[1901] Bromley, Worfield: 	Thomas Morris, h,m, 46, Waggoner agricultural. Ireland.
				Mary, wife m, 40, Shrop. Dawley.
				Thomas, s, 15, Factory Boy, Bridgnorth.
				Albert, s, 13, Errand boy. Bridgnorth.
				James, 7; Francis,6; Lillie,3; all Bridgnorth.


MORRIS, ALBERT EDWARD
Rank: Company Serjeant Major
Service No: 7884
Date of Death: 20/11/1917
Age: 30
Regiment/Service: King's Shropshire Light Infantry 1st Bn.
Grave Reference I. C. 3.
Cemetery RIBECOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Thomas and Mary Morris, of 3, Bromley, Bridgnorth, Salop; husband of Sarah Eleanor Morris, of Kemp's Eye Farm, Belle Vue, Shrewsbury.[CWGC]

Historical Information
Ribecourt was taken on the 20th November 1917 by the 6th Division, but at the conclusion of the Battle of Cambrai it remained practically on the British front line; it was lost in March 1918 and recaptured by the 3rd and 42nd (East Lancashire) Divisions on the following 27th September.
Ribecourt British Cemetery was begun by the 6th Division in November 1917 and used at intervals until March 1918; and further burials were made in September and October 1918.
There are now nearly 300, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, almost 20 are unidentified and the graves of 81 soldiers from the United Kingdom were destroyed by shell fire and are now represented by special memorials.
The cemetery covers an area of 1,002 square metres and is enclosed by a low rubble wall.

UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919 about Albert Edward Morris
Name:	Albert Edward Morris
Birth Place:	Bridgnorth, Salop
Residence:	Bridgnorth
Death Date:	20 Nov 1917
Death Location:	France & Flanders
Enlistment Location:	Shrewsbury
Rank:	C.Q.M.S.
Regiment:	King's (Shropshire Light Infantry)
Battalion:	1st Battalion
Number:	7884
Type of Casualty:	Killed in action
Theatre of War:	Western European Theatre

MORRIS Albert Edward of Kemps Eye Belle Vue Shrewsbury
company sergeant major ist battalion King's Shropshire
Light Infantry died 20 November 1917 in France Administra-
tion Shrewsbury 5 March to Sarah Eleanor Morris widow.
Effects £133 5s. [Probate Calender]

[Medal Card] MORRIS Albert E: KSLI WOcl2 7884 V&B
ist Bn KSLI was a regular battalion, part of 16th Brigade, 6th Division. 

The history of 6th Division

This peacetime Division of the pre-war army was quartered in Ireland and England at the outbreak of war, and was ordered on mobilisation to concentrate near Cambridge. By early September it was fully equipped and trained. On the 10 September 1914 it landed at St Nazaire and proceeded to the Western Front, where it remained throughout the war. The Division arrived in time to reinforce the hard-pressed BEF on the Aisne, before the whole army was moved north into Flanders:
1914
The actions on the Aisne heights 
1915
The action at Hooge
1916
The Battle of Flers-Courcelette*
The Battle of Morval*
The Battle of Le Transloy* 
The battles marked * are phases of the Battles of the Somme 1916
1917
The Battle of Hill 70 (at same time as the Battles of Arras 1917)
The Cambrai operations
1918
The Battle of St Quentin**
The battle marked ** is a phase of the First Battles of the Somme 1918 
The Battle of Bailleul***
The First Battle of Kemmel Ridge***
The Second Battle of Kemmel Ridge***
The Advance in Flanders 
The Battle of Epehy+
The Battle of the St Quentin Canal+
The Battle of Beaurevoir+
The Battle of Cambrai 1918+ 
The battles marked + are phases of the Battles of the Hindenburg Line
The pursuit to the Selle 
The Battle of the Selle

The Division was billeted around Bohain at the Armistice on 11 November 1918. It was selected to march into Germany as part of the occupation force and began to move 14-18 November to Solre-le-Chateau to assemble. The Division crossed the German border on 13 December and reached its destination at Bruehl on 23 December.