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{{Infobox military person
|name= George Mortimer Morris
|birth_date=22 August 1871
|birth_place= 
|death_date=24 April 1954
|death_place= [[Litton Cheney]], [[Dorset]]
|image=
|caption= 
|nickname= 
|allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom]]
|serviceyears= 1890–1919
|rank= [[Brigadier general|Brigadier General]]
|branch=  [[Image:Flag of the British Army.svg|23px]] [[British Indian Army]]
|current position= 
|commands=[[8th Gurkha Rifles]]<br />[[55th Indian Brigade]]
|unit= [[Devonshire Regiment]]
|battles= [[World War I|First World War]]
|awards= [[Order of the Bath|CB]], [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]]
|laterwork= 
}}

[[Brigadier general|Brigadier General]] '''George Mortimer Morris''' [[Order of the Bath|CB]] [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] (1871–1954) was a senior [[British Indian Army]] officer during the [[World War I|First World War]].

==Biography==

Born on 22 August 1871, George Mortimer Morris was educated at [[Bedford School]]. He received his first commission as a [[Second lieutenant|Second Lieutenant]] in the [[Devonshire Regiment]] in 1890, and was promoted to the rank of [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]] in the [[British Indian Army]] in 1901. He served in [[Mesopotamia]] during the [[World War I|First World War]], between 1914 and 1918, where he was Commander of the [[55th Indian Brigade]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U241022/MORRIS_Brig.-Gen._George_Mortimer?index=8&results=QuicksearchResults&query=0|title=Who's Who|work=ukwhoswho.com}}</ref>

[[Brigadier general|Brigadier General]] George Mortimer Morris was appointed a Companion of the [[Distinguished Service Order]] in 1917, and as a Commander of the [[Order of the Bath]] in 1919.<ref>https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29990/supplement/2720/data.pdf {{Bare URL PDF |date=December 2021}}</ref> He died in [[Litton Cheney]], [[Dorset]], on 24 April 1954, aged 86.<ref>Obituary, ''[[The Times]]'', 26 April 1954, p. 8</ref>

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