3 September 1916
Left Charing Cross 11.45 for France. Landed Boulogne and train to Etables Base Camp. Reported 32nd Divisional Base.
Morland Killed.
(Oxford Chronicle as reproduced in Oxford at War)
Kenneth Irvine Thomas Morland was one of Louis's tea planter friends from Ceylon. He died aged 32 at Guillemont and is buried in the Guillemont Road War cemetery.
He was the son of Edward and Ethel Morland of Abingdon and he was educated at Haileybury and Oriel College Oxford. On graduating he went to Ceylon and was a planter there between 1908 and 1915.
Blog entries refer to Morland on 26 May 1915 and 6 August 1915. Most notably a reference to Xmas 1912 when a Louis and group of planters celebrated Xmas day with boxing - and went to Morland's in the evening.
KIT Morland's father inherited the Morland family brewery in the late 19th century. It still prospers , having been bought by Greene King in 2000. In 1979 it brought out a celebration ale to mark the 50th anniversary of MG cars. 'Old Speckled Hen'.
(attrib. Froggit English wikipedia)
Because of its local connections it was popular at the time in Oxford and coincidentally I remember it well.
A link to an article about Kit Morland is attached together with a link to a brief history of the brewery.
http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/war/stmargaret/morland_kenneth.html
http://www.abingdon.gov.uk/feature-articles/morland-brewery
Morland Killed.
(Oxford Chronicle as reproduced in Oxford at War)
Kenneth Irvine Thomas Morland was one of Louis's tea planter friends from Ceylon. He died aged 32 at Guillemont and is buried in the Guillemont Road War cemetery.
He was the son of Edward and Ethel Morland of Abingdon and he was educated at Haileybury and Oriel College Oxford. On graduating he went to Ceylon and was a planter there between 1908 and 1915.
Blog entries refer to Morland on 26 May 1915 and 6 August 1915. Most notably a reference to Xmas 1912 when a Louis and group of planters celebrated Xmas day with boxing - and went to Morland's in the evening.
KIT Morland's father inherited the Morland family brewery in the late 19th century. It still prospers , having been bought by Greene King in 2000. In 1979 it brought out a celebration ale to mark the 50th anniversary of MG cars. 'Old Speckled Hen'.
(attrib. Froggit English wikipedia)
Because of its local connections it was popular at the time in Oxford and coincidentally I remember it well.
A link to an article about Kit Morland is attached together with a link to a brief history of the brewery.
http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/war/stmargaret/morland_kenneth.html
http://www.abingdon.gov.uk/feature-articles/morland-brewery
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