Lives of the First World War

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ID: 8598416

Name: WO 339/12776

Title: Officers Service Papers

Description: Lieutenant Reginald Owen MORRIS. The Durham Light Infantry. Date: 1914-1915.

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URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1066705
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ID: 8598417

Name: Issue: 28953, Page: 8645.

Title: The London Gazette - 27th October 1914

Description: The undermentioned to be temporary Second Lieutenants. Dated 13th October, 1914: — ... Reginald Owen Morris.

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28953/page/8645
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ID: 8598420

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2008 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/M/1915/1/AZ/000616/061

Additional: Bride's name matches evidence from others sources.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8641513

Title: Reginald Owen Morris

Description: Reginald Owen Morris (3 March 1886 – 14 December 1948), was a British composer and renowned music teacher. He was born in York. He was educated at Harrow School, New College, Oxford and the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London, where he subsequently became professor of counterpoint and composition. On the outbreak of World War I he enlisted in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, along with his friends George Butterworth and Geoffrey Toye. He became famous as an exceptional teacher of counterpoint, and wrote several texts including Introduction to Counterpoint (Oxford 1944), Contrapuntal Technique in the Sixteenth Century (Oxford, 1922), Foundations of Practical Harmony and Counterpoint, Volume 1 of The Oxford Harmony (1946), and The Structure of Music (Oxford, 1935).

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