Forename: Reginald Ernest
Surname: Morse
Rank: Trooper
Regiment: Royal Armoured Corps
Institution: St Paul’s Practising School
Reginald Ernest Morse, son of Mr and Mrs Albert Morse, was born on 29 July 1919. He lived at 5 Windsor Street and later 48 Townsend Street, Cheltenham. He was educated at St Pauls Practising School from April 1926 to August 1933 and entered into the bakery trade after education, joining the Co-operative Wholesale Society as a baker in Tewkesbury.
Morse was conscripted into the army in December 1939 with the Royal Armoured Corps, transferring to Weston-Super-Mare in June 1942. Trooper Morse was killed in action on the 29 June 1942, aged 23, in one of the Luftwaffe’s Baedeker raids. He is buried at Cheltenham Cemetery. He left a widow Evelyn Morse and elder brother who also served in the army during the war.