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Private Campbell Morton

 

Number: 11068

Company: 60th (Belfast) Company, 17th Battalion, First Contingent

ENLISTMENT

Date: 13 February 1900

Place: Belfast

Age: 28 years stated on enlistment. (Born 8 May 1871 at Bellaghy, Ballyscullion, County Londonderry.)

Trade or calling: Farmer/ merchant

Place of birth: In the Parish of Ballyscallion, in or near the Town of Bellaghy, in the County of Londonderry

Address: Bellaghy

Family: Married. Wife Martha Morton (nee Gallagher), National School teacher, of Bellaghy, County Londonderry; married at Kilrea 1st Presbyterian Church, County Londonderry, on 13 September 1898; child James born 25 June 1899 at Bellaghy. Father James Morton, draper and grocer (dec.1898), mother Anne Jane Morton (nee Craig) (dec.1881).

Previous military service: No

Description: Height 5' 11 1/2". Complexion fresh, eyes grey, hair fair. Four(?) scars left elbow; tattoo marks left forearm; birth mark right armpit; scar left eyebrow.

Religion: Presbyterian

ACTIVE SERVICE

Date to South Africa: 18 April 1900

Date home: 6 May 1901

Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Rhodesia, 1901 clasps.

DISCHARGE

Date: 19 June 1901

Place: United Kingdom

Reason for discharge: At his own request

 

Prior to enlisting in the Imperial Yeomanry, Morton had lived for some years in the United States.

His name was mentioned in a letter written home by a fellow Yeoman from Umtali on 28 June 1900, relating to an attempted shooting, which was published in the Northern Whig of 4 August. It can be seen here.

His second child, Wallace, was born at Bellaghy on 30 August 1902.

By 1904 he was living in South Africa where he worked as a general labourer. He died of phthisis on 30 December 1904 at Old Somerset Hospital, Cape Town, and was buried in the Maitland Cemetery.

 

Ballymena Weekly Telegraph, 4 February 1905

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