John Emil Morgan (1891 - abt. 1917)

Born 1891 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England

Ancestors

Died about 1917 at about age 26 in India

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Biography

1911 - traveller in his father's press cutting agency.

Joined the Airforce in the First World War. Jack was escorting a plane with important documents and swapped places with the plane with actual documents to fool the Germans and was shot down and killed. He was given a hero's funeral.

Buried in Baghdad having been shot down and died in action age 25 - (info from family member)

Sources

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Morgan John Emil 1891 England & Wales Births 1837-2006 Kings Norton, Worcestershire, England

Morgan John Emil 1891 1909 British Army, Honourable Artillery Company London EC

Morgan John Emil 1892 1911 Census For England & Wales Stoke Newington, Hackney, London & Middlesex, England

Morgan John Emil 1891 1912-20 British Royal Air Force, Officers' Service Records 1912-1920 Great Britain

Morgan John Emil 1891 1914-18 Lives Of The First World War 1914-1918 Great Britain

Morgan John Emil 1891 1917 Airmen Died In The Great War, 1914-1919 Great Britain

Morgan John Emil 1891 1917 1917 Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt Of Honour Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq

Name: Flight Lieutenant John Emil Morgan Birth Date: 4 Sep 1891 Birth Place: Wick, Wychavon District, Worcestershire, England Death Date: 30 Mar 1917 Death Place: India Cemetery: Baghdad War Cemetery (North Gate) Burial or Cremation Place: Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq Has Bio?: N URL: https://www.findagrave.com/mem... Save Cancel Source Information Ancestry.com. Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.