Service Details
Name:
 MORUM
Given Name:
 JAMES PEARSE
Initials:
 J P
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Rifle Brigade
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Unit:
 6th Bn.
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Unit 2:
 attd. 1st Bn.
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Date of Death:
 1916-07-01
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Date of Birth:
 1896-03-08
Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, by an artillery shell on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, just before his platoon left their lines for an attack on the Redan Ridge. The 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade came under heavy fire from Ridge Redoubt and The Quadrilateral soon after leaving the trenches. They were driven back after heavy close quarter fighting and a German counter-attack. The Battalion sustained 474 losses
Additional
Information:
Son of William Ernest and Florence Sarah Morum, of Queenstown, Cape Colony, South Africa. Born Queenstown. Educated Merton Court Prep School, Sidcup, London; Combermere House, Wellington College 1910-1913 & Pembroke College, Cambridge University 1914. Commemorated on Queenstown Methodist Church; Queenstown; Merton Court Prep School; Wellington College, Berkshire & Pembroke College, Cambridge University WWI Memorials.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 SUCRERIE MILITARY CEMETERY, COLINCAMPS
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Grave Reference:
 I. H. 1.

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