M. H. L. Morgan | |
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| Born | 18 November 1881 |
| Died | 1971 |
Mountiford Hickman Llewellyn Morgan (18 November 1881 - 1971) was a British army officer in the Indian Army.[1]
Career[edit | edit source]
In July 1900, Morgan left the Royal Military College and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Indian Staff Corps.[2] He was promoted to captain in October 1909.[3] The following year he passed exams in Russian.[4]
In 1915 he was injured in Egypt.[5] He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1915.[6] In July 1916, he was promoted from captain to temporary major.[7]
On 3 January 1919, Morgan, then of the 62nd Punjabis, attached to the 124th Baluchistan Infantry, was appointed acting lieutenant colonel while in command of a battalion.[8] On 11 April 1919, at the request of A. J. W. Kitchin, Morgan, then based in Lahore, was selected and recruited by Sir William Beynon to take command of Amritsar.[9][10] Shortly before Morgan arrived at Amritsar, Reginald Dyer had already assumed the position.[9][10] According to accounts by Dyer’s brigade-major Captain Briggs, Morgan travelled to Jallianwala Bagh on 13 April 1919 in a car with Dyer, Briggs, and Dyer’s two bodyguards, Anderson and Pizzey.[11][12] There, he became a witness of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.[12][lower-alpha 1]
Morgan’s retirement appeared in The London Gazette on 2 September 1921.[14][15]
Personal and family[edit | edit source]
In 1913 Morgan married his cousin Anna Hickman Crofts, youngest daughter of Captain Samuel Hodder of Ringabella.[16][17][18] In 1939 he married married Evelyn J. Treanor.[19]
Notes[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Morgan's account of the Massacre, titled "The Truth about Amritsar: by an eyewitness" is held at the Imperial War Museum.[13]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. J. Whitaker & Sons. 1925. p. 703.
- ↑ "Unattached list" (PDF). The London Gazette. No. 27214. 27 July 1900. p. 4656. Archived from the original on 5 July 2024. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
- ↑ "Lieutenants to be Captain" (PDF). The London Gazette. No. 28294. 5 October 1909. p. 7357. Archived from the original on 18 February 2026. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
- ↑ "The study of foreign languages". Homeward Mail from India, China and the East. 17 December 1910. p. 1603. Retrieved 22 February 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Egypt". South Wales Daily News. 9 February 1915. p. 6. Retrieved 22 February 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "To be Companions of the Distinguished Service Order" (PDF). The Edinburgh Gazette. No. 12867. p. 1630. Archived from the original on 18 February 2026. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
- ↑ "Indian Army: Captains to be temporary Majors" (PDF). The Gazette. No. 29828. 17 November 1916. p. 11168. Archived from the original on 18 February 2026.
- ↑ "Commands and Staff" (PDF). The London Gazette. No. 31472. p. 9425. Archived from the original on 11 August 2025. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Collett, Nigel A. (2011). "The O'Dwyer v. Nair Libel Case of 1924: New Evidence Concerning Indian Attitudes and British Intelligence During the 1919 Punjab Disturbances". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 21 (4): 469–483. doi:10.1017/S1356186311000435. ISSN 1356-1863. JSTOR 41490046.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Ilahi, Shereen (2020). "Punjab disturbances". Imperial Violence and the Path to Independence: India, Ireland and the Crisis of Empire. London: Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 41–48. ISBN 978-1-350-15306-6.
- ↑ Wagner, p. 156-160
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Collett, pp. 258-260
- ↑ Collett, p. 485
- ↑ "Indian Army" (PDF). The London Gazette. No. 6619. 18 October 1929. p. 33544. Archived from the original on 18 February 2026.
- ↑ "Indian Army" (PDF). The London Gazette. No. 32444. 2 September 1921. p. 6948. Archived from the original on 10 August 2025. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
- ↑ "Small Talk". The Sketch. 24 September 1913. p. 380. Retrieved 22 February 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915, p. 283
- ↑ Burke, Bernard; Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1912). A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland. Dalcassian Publishing Company. p. 324.
- ↑ England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005
Bibliography[edit | edit source]
- Collett, Nigel (2007). The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer. A&C Black. ISBN 1-85285-575-4.
- Wagner, Kim A. (2019). Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear & the Making of a Massacre. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-24546-2.