Private George Morgan
[Royal] Army Service Corps

Private Wilfred Morgan
[Royal] Army Service Corps

The photos are of my father Wilfred Morgan and his brother George posed in their Royal Army Service Corps uniforms. The family lived in Abbey Hills Road, Oldham, in 1911, and both survived the conflict.

My father, Wilfred, was a dispatch rider in northern France.

George was born in 1891 and Wilfred in 1896. They had a sister Veronica born in 1889 and a younger brother, Maurice. Their parents were George Morgan (a headmaster in Oldham) and Alice Kelly, who were married in 1889. On the 1911 census George was recorded as a 'motor driver & mechanic'

In 1911, Veronica was a 'telephone operator, at the Post Office on Union Street, now the Local Studies and Archives Library. She would later marry Joseph Whitehead. Their son, Joseph Morgan Whitehead, was killed in Holland in WW2, in 1944, and is buried and commemorated in a cemetery in Nijmegan Gelderland. He was a trooper in the Royal Armoured Corps. (4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards).

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Photo & information contributed by : John Morgan