29 December 2025  ·  Shownotes  ·  First World War

Driver William Henry Morcombe MM

First World War

Summary

CW: Suicide

2-November-1917: While serving as a Driver within 14 Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, Driver William Henry Morcombe MM was subjected to one of the terror weapons of the Great War, Gas. Morcombe survived the war, but unfortunately not the peace that followed it.

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