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He won the VC in Belgium in 1915 aged 23, and a private in the 1st Battalion, The Princess Victoria's
Royal Irish Fusiliers. Victoria Cross citation:
On 12 April 1915 near Messines, Belgium, Private Morrow rescued and carried to places of
comparative safety several men who had been buried in the debris of trenches wrecked by shell fire.
He carried out this work on his own initiative and under heavy fire from the enemy.
He was died of wounds at St. Jan on the Ypres Salient, Belgium, on 26 April 1915 and is buried in
White House Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery. His gravestone bears the inscription:
GOD IS LOVE.
His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum in Armagh, Northern Ireland.
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