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'''Mountiford Hickman Llewellyn Morgan''' (18 November 1881 - 1971) was a British army officer in the [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage |date=1925 |publisher=J. Whitaker & Sons |page=703 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h_cvi4UFyCYC&pg=PA703 |language=en}}</ref>

==Career==
In July 1900, Morgan left the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst|Royal Military College]] and was commissioned as a [[second lieutenant]] in the [[Indian Staff Corps]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Unattached list|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27214/page/4656 |access-date=18 February 2026 |work=The London Gazette |issue=27214 |date=27 July 1900 |page=4656|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240705214953/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27214/data.pdf|archive-date=5 July 2024}}</ref> He was promoted to [[captain (armed forces)|captain]] in October 1909.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lieutenants to be Captain |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28294/page/7357 |access-date=18 February 2026 |work=The London Gazette |issue=28294 |date=5 October 1909 |pages=7357|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260218113945/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28294/data.pdf|archive-date=18 February 2026}}</ref> The following year he passed exams in Russian.<ref>{{cite news |title=The study of foreign languages|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001712/19101217/009/0003|access-date=22 February 2026 |work=Homeward Mail from India, China and the East
|date=17 December 1910|page=1603|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

In 1915 he was injured in Egypt.<ref>{{cite news |title=Egypt|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000919/19150209/118/0006|access-date=22 February 2026 |work=South Wales Daily News
|date=9 February 1915|page=6|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He was awarded the [[Distinguished Service Order]] in 1915.<ref>{{cite news |title=To be Companions of the Distinguished Service Order |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/12867/page/1630 |access-date=18 February 2026 |work=The Edinburgh Gazette |issue=12867 |page=1630|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260218114626/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/12867/data.pdf|archive-date=18 February 2026}}</ref> In July 1916, he was promoted from captain to temporary [[major (rank)|major]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Indian Army: Captains to be temporary Majors |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29828/page/11168 |work=The Gazette |issue=29828 |date=17 November 1916 |page=11168|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260218115622/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29828/data.pdf|archive-date=18 February 2026}}</ref>

On 3 January 1919, Morgan, then of the [[62nd Punjabis]], attached to the [[124th Duchess of Connaught's Own Baluchistan Infantry|124th Baluchistan Infantry]], was appointed acting [[lieutenant colonel]] while in command of a battalion.<ref>{{cite news |title=Commands and Staff|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31472/page/9435 |access-date=18 February 2026 |work=The London Gazette |issue=31472 |page=9425|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250811141403/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31271/data.pdf|archive-date=11 August 2025}}</ref> On 11 April 1919, at the request of [[A. J. W. Kitchin]], Morgan, then based in Lahore, was selected and recruited by [[William Beynon (Indian Army officer)|Sir William Beynon]] to take command of Amritsar.<ref name=Collett2011>{{cite journal |last1=Collett |first1=Nigel A. |author-link=Nigel Collett |date=2011 |title=The O'Dwyer v. Nair Libel Case of 1924: New Evidence Concerning Indian Attitudes and British Intelligence During the 1919 Punjab Disturbances |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41490046 |journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=469–483 |doi=10.1017/S1356186311000435 |jstor=41490046 |issn=1356-1863 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=Ilahi2020>{{cite book |last1=Ilahi |first1=Shereen |title=Imperial Violence and the Path to Independence: India, Ireland and the Crisis of Empire |date=2020 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-1-350-15306-6 |chapter=Punjab disturbances|pages=41–48 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQBbEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA41|location=London |language=en}}</ref> Shortly before Morgan arrived at Amritsar, [[Reginald Dyer]] had already assumed the position.<ref name=Collett2011/><ref name=Ilahi2020/> According to accounts by Dyer’s brigade-major [[Frederic Cecil Currer Briggs|Captain Briggs]], Morgan travelled to [[Jallianwala Bagh]] on 13 April 1919 in a car with Dyer, Briggs, and Dyer’s two bodyguards, [[William J. Anderson (bodyguard)|Anderson]] and Pizzey.<ref name=Wagner.160>Wagner, p. 156-160</ref><ref name=Collett.258>Collett, pp. 258-260</ref> There, he became a witness of the [[Jallianwala Bagh Massacre]].<ref name=Collett.258/>{{efn|Morgan's account of the Massacre, titled "The Truth about Amritsar: by an eyewitness" is held at the [[Imperial War Museum]].<ref name=Collett.485>Collett, p. 485</ref>}}

Morgan’s retirement appeared in ''[[The London Gazette]]'' on 2 September 1921.<ref>{{cite news |title=Indian Army |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33544/page/6619 |work=The London Gazette |issue=6619 |date=18 October 1929 |page=33544|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260218140108/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33544/data.pdf|archive-date=18 February 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Indian Army |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32444/page/6948 |access-date=18 February 2026 |work=The London Gazette |issue=32444 |date=2 September 1921 |page=6948|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250810180958/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32444/data.pdf|archive-date=10 August 2025 }}</ref>

==Personal and family==
In 1913 Morgan married his cousin Anna Hickman Crofts, youngest daughter of Captain Samuel Hodder of Ringabella.<ref>{{cite news |title=Small Talk|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001860/19130924/033/0030|access-date=22 February 2026 |work=The Sketch
|date=24 September 1913|page=380|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915, p. 283</ref><ref name=Burke>{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |last2=Fox-Davies |first2=Arthur Charles |title=A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland |date=1912 |publisher=Dalcassian Publishing Company |page=324 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=diHHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA324|language=en}}</ref> In 1939 he married married Evelyn J. Treanor.<ref>England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005</ref>

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==Bibliography==
*{{cite book |last1=Collett |first1=Nigel |title=The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer |date=2007 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=1-85285-575-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XuQC5pgzCw4C|language=en}}
*{{cite book |last1=Wagner |first1=Kim A. |title=Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear & the Making of a Massacre |date=2019 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-24546-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bziIDwAAQBAJ|language=en}}

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