Edwin Morris (British Army officer)

Educated at Wellington College, Berkshire,[2] Morris entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Royal Engineers in 1909 and served in the First World War, where he was awarded the Military Cross and was mentioned in dispatches.[1]

During the interwar period he was a student at the Staff College, Camberley from 1921 to 1922, becoming an instructor there between 1926 and 1930: he later went on to become a General Staff Officer (GSO) at the War Office in 1931.[3] He attended the Imperial Defence College in 1933[2]and, from 1934, he was Deputy Director of Military Operations & Intelligence for India and from 1936 he was Deputy Director of Military Operations at the War Office.[3] In 1939 he was appointed a Brigadier on the staff of Northern Command.[3][2]

At the start of the Second World War, Morris was Director of Staff Duties at the War Office.[3] He was appointed General Officer Commanding (GOC) West Sussex County Division in 1940 and GOC 1st Infantry Division in 1941.[3] Later in 1941 he became GOC IX Corps and in 1942 he was appointed Chief of the General Staff in India.[3] In 1944 he was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) for Northern Command.[3]

After the war, in 1946, he went on to be Head of the Army Representative Military Staff Committee in the United Nations, a post he held until he retired in 1948.[3] He was also aide-de-camp general to King George VI from 1947 to 1948.[3] From 1951 to 1958 he was the Chief Royal Engineer.[4]

• Smart, Nick (2005). Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War. Barnsley, U.K.: Pen & Sword Military. ISBN 1-84415-049-6.

• British Army Officers 1939−1945
• Generals of World War II