Gunner Herbert Pace MORGAN (1095748)
B Troop, C Battery, 4th Regiment Royal Horse Artillery

Date of birth: 26th February 1912
Date of death: 26th May 1942

Killed in action aged 30
Commemorated on the Alamein Memorial Column 8
Herbert Pace Morgan was born at Westcliffe-on-Sea in Essex on the 26th of February 1912 the son of Herbert Edwin Morgan, a tanner, and Alice Maud (nee Pace) Morgan of "Namur", Brightwell Avenue, Westcliffe-on-Sea, later of Chichester in Sussex.

He was educated at Lancing College where he was in Seconds House from September 1925 to July 1928. On leaving school he entered the Leathersellers' Technical College in 1928 and went to work for the tanners Gibbings, Harrison and Company of Chichester in 1930.

In 1937 he moved to Salisbury in Rhodesia where he served with the South Rhodesian Forces. He was married in 1938 to Doris Constance (nee Bridger) of Westgate in Sussex.Following the outbreak of war he enlisted as Gunner 1095478 in the Royal Horse Artillery.

On the 1st of May 1942 the 4th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery was in Libya when it split into three columns. From the 16th of May until the 26th of May C Battery was engaged in training and digging gun pits for a defensive position at Wadi Mari. On the 23rd of May B Troop moved to the coast for forty eight hours for a rest before returning to their positions on the left flank of the Battery on the 25th of May. They were replaced at the rest camp by A Troop. On the night of the 26th of May the enemy attacked the defensive box with infantry and anti tanks guns with B Troop being heavily engaged. The forward observation post was forced to fall back to the box and by the time A Troop had been rushed back from the coast to support them B Troop had run out of ammunition and had been overrun with the entire Troop being killed or captured. Herbert Morgan was among the dead. The remainder of C Battery was withdrawn to Sidi Muftih where they were detailed to protect a supply dump.

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