Mountiford Hickman Llewellyn Morgan

M. H. L. Morgan
Born(1881-11-18)18 November 1881
Died1971(1971-00-00) (aged 89–90)

Mountiford Hickman Llewellyn Morgan (18 November 1881 - 1971) was a British army officer in the Indian Army.[1]

Career

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][a]

Morgan’s retirement appeared in The London Gazette on 2 September 1921.[14][15]

Personal and family

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

  1. ^ Morgan's account of the Massacre, titled "The Truth about Amritsar: by an eyewitness" is held at the Imperial War Museum.[13]

References

  1. ^ Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. J. Whitaker & Sons. 1925. p. 703.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Egypt". South Wales Daily News. 9 February 1915. p. 6. Retrieved 22 February 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ "Commands and Staff" (PDF). The London Gazette. No. 31472. p. 9425. Archived from the original on 11 August 2025. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  9. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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.
  11. ^ Wagner, p. 156-160
  12. ^ a b Collett, pp. 258-260
  13. ^ Collett, p. 485
  14. ^ "Indian Army" (PDF). The London Gazette. No. 6619. 18 October 1929. p. 33544. Archived from the original on 18 February 2026.
  15. ^ "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.
  16. ^ "Small Talk". The Sketch. 24 September 1913. p. 380. Retrieved 22 February 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  17. ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915, p. 283
  18. ^ Burke, Bernard; Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1912). A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland. Dalcassian Publishing Company. p. 324.
  19. ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005


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