Archdale Albert Morse

A Lance Corporal with 1st Bn. Archdale died on 14th of September 1914 at the age of 29. 

Archdale was born at Henstead in 1885, a son of George and Charlotte Morse. He was baptised at Henstead on 8 February 1885. In 1891 his family lived at Henstead. By 1901 his father had died and his mother remarried and his family lived near the Bell Inn at Carlton Colville and Archdale worked as a general labourer. Later their address was 1 Bell Cottage, Carlton Colville.

Archdale enlisted in the Army at Great Yarmouth on 5 January 1905. He joined the Coldstream Guards. He served with the 1st Battalion and arrived in France with the Battalion on 13 August 1914.

On the morning of 14 September 1914 the Battalionm were at Paissy and were ordered to form the advance guard for their division and to march to Cerny via Moulin and Vendresse. When at Cerny they were soon bought into the firing line and were subject to heavy rifle and machine-gun fire from a nearby factory which they succeeded in taking, but with considerable loss. The Battalion remained in action all day and at times were subject to very severe shell fire. The Battalion's loses, all ranks, were 11 killed, 190 wounded, and 163 missing.  

Archdale was reported to be missing on 14 September and by March 1916 it had been concluded that he had been killed in action on that date.