Mountiford Hickman Llewellyn Morgan
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M. H. L. Morgan | |
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| Born | 18 November 1881 |
| Died | 1971 (aged 89–90) |
Mountiford Hickman Llewellyn Morgan (18 November 1881 - 1971) was a British army officer in the Indian Army.[1]
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]
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