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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Senior officer in the British Indian Army}}<br />
{{Infobox military person<br />
|honorific_prefix= [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|Colonel]]<br />
|name = Charles Temple Morris<br />
|honorific_suffix= [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]]<br />
|image =<br />
|caption =<br />
|birth_date = 9 January 1876<br />
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1956|06|01|1876|01|9|df=yes}} <br />
|birth_place = [[Lucknow]], [[India]]<br />
|death_place = [[Kensington]], [[England]]<br />
|allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}}<br />
|branch = {{army|United Kingdom}}<br>{{flag|British India|23px}} <br />
|serviceyears = 1895-1931<br />
|rank = [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|Colonel]]<br />
|commands = 5th Battalion [[1st Punjab Regiment]]<br />
|battles = [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–55)|North West Frontier]]<br>[[World War I]]<br />
|awards = [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]]<br>[[Mentioned in dispatches|Mentioned in despatches]] (3) <br />
}}<br />
[[Colonel (United Kingdom)|Colonel]] '''Charles Temple Morris''' [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (9 January 1876 – 1 June 1956), was a senior officer in the [[British Indian Army]] and commander of the 5th Battalion of the [[1st Punjab Regiment]] between 1921 and 1926.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-241020|title=Morris, Colonel Charles Temple, (9 Jan. 1876–1 June 1956)|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U241020|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1}}</ref><ref name="thegazette.co.uk">{{cite news|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/13907/page/512/data.pdf|title=The Edinburgh Gazette|date=6 April 1923|page=512}}</ref><ref name="google.co.uk">{{cite book|author=Mohammed Ibrahim Qureshi|title=The First Punjabis|publisher=Gale & Polden|year=1958|pages=484}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/indiaofficeselect/PhotoEnqFull.asp?PrintID=118470|title=India Office Select Materials - Record details|publisher=[[British Library]]|accessdate=27 May 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527205221/http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/indiaofficeselect/PhotoEnqFull.asp?PrintID=118470|archivedate=27 May 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Charles Temple Morris was born in [[Lucknow]], [[India]]<ref>India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947.</ref> in 1876, the third son of Lieutenant-Colonel George Tomkins Morris of the [[Indian Staff Corps|Bengal Staff Corps]].<ref name="auto"/> He was educated in [[England]] at [[Bedford Modern School]] where, in 1894, his record for the 440 yards went unbroken for the following 62 years.<ref name="auto"/><ref>[[Bedford Modern School]] of the Black and Red, by A.G. Underwood (1981).</ref><br />
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==Military career==<br />
Morris was commissioned into the 4th (Militia) battalion the West Yorkshire Regiment on 13 February 1895, then received a regular commission into the 2nd Battalion of the [[Green Howards]] 15 May 1897, later transferring to the [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]] in 1901.<ref name="auto"/><ref>London Gazette 12 February 1895.</ref><ref>London Gazette 14 May 1897.</ref> He served in the [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–55)|North West Frontier]] between 1897 and 1898 (medal, [[Medal bar|2 clasps]]), in 1908 (medal, 1 [[Medal bar|clasp]]) and in 1915.<ref name="auto"/> During [[World War I|the European War]] he saw service in [[Mesopotamian campaign|Mesopotamia]] in 1916 where he was [[Mentioned in dispatches|mentioned in despatches]].<ref name="auto"/><br />
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Morris served again in the [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–55)|North West Frontier]] between 1919 and 1921 where he was awarded [[Medal bar|2 clasps]] to his 1908 medal, [[Mentioned in dispatches|mentioned in despatches]] twice and invested as a Commander of the [[Order of the British Empire]].<ref name="auto"/><ref name="thegazette.co.uk"/> He commanded the 5th Battalion [[1st Punjab Regiment]] between 1921 and 1926<ref name="google.co.uk"/> and retired from military service in 1931.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="google.co.uk"/><br />
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==Family life==<br />
In 1901 Morris married Marie Willoughby Osborne with whom he had one son.<ref name="auto"/> He died in [[Kensington]] on 1 June 1956.<ref name="auto"/><ref>England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966.</ref><br />
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