Robert Morrow VC (7 September 1891 – 26 April 1915) was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Details
Morrow was born in Newmills, Dungannon, County Tyrone, Ireland. He was 23 years old, and a private in the 1st Battalion, The Princess Victoria's Royal Irish Fusiliers, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross.
On 12 April 1915 near Messines, Belgium, Private Morrow rescued and carried to places of comparative safety several men who had been buried in the debris of trenches wrecked by shell fire. He carried out this work on his own initiative and under heavy fire from the enemy.[1]
He was died of wounds at St. Jan on the Ypres Salient, Belgium, on 26 April 1915 and is buried in White House Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery. His gravestone bears the inscription: GOD IS LOVE.[2]
His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum in Armagh, Northern Ireland.[3]
References
- ^ "No. 29170". The London Gazette (Supplement). 21 May 1915. p. 4990.
- ^ "Casualty Details: Morrow, Robert". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- ^ VC.Org.UK
Further reading
- Clark, Brian D. H. (1986). "A register of awards to Irish-born officers and men". The Irish Sword. XVI (64): 185–287.
- Ireland's VCs ISBN 1-899243-00-3 (Dept of Economic Development 1995)
- Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)
- Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross (Richard Doherty & David Truesdale, Four Courts, 2000 ISBN 185182491X)
- Batchelor, Peter; Matson, Christopher (2011). The Western Front 1915. VCs of the First World War. Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-6057-4.
- Buzzell, Nora, ed. (1997). The Register of the Victoria Cross. Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: This England Alma House. ISBN 0-906324-27-0.
