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Ieuan Anthony MORGAN
Ieuan Anthony MORGAN, 'Tony'
Flying Officer, 187828,
R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve
Died 17 May 1945
(his 23rd birthday)
Born 1922
Reported Missing on Active Service, from air operations at Port Blair, over the Andaman Islands, Bay of Bengal, while acting as bomb aimer in a RAF Liberator, with a crew of eleven, on his crews first combat operation
Commemorated on the Singapore Memorial, Column 448
He had two older sisters, Eluned & Sybil. Their mother (maiden name thought to be Lilian Fisher) was a widow and her sister Kate lived with her in Higher West Cross Lane, West Cross, to help raise them.
Kate was a classics teacher at De-La-Beche Girls School and Eluned taught Latin there.
She married Bill Evans and has two daughters, names unknown.
Sybil taught at Oystermouth Infants School.
Anthony was a graduate of Swansea University, gaining a BSc and a member of the University's Air Training Corps.
Ten of the eleven crew of Liberator KH250H
Back Row Left to Right
Navigator 1804316 F/Sgt Harold Walter EMERSON
Mid Upper Gunner 1516012 F/Sgt Harold WYNNE
Pilot 177155 F/O Rowland TOTHAM DFC
Bomb Aimer 187828 F/O Ieuan Anthony ’Tony’ MORGAN
2nd Pilot1522985 F/Sgt John Herbert MCDOWALL
Rear Gunner 1380358 F/Sgt Robert Murdock Bannerman McPHERSON
Front Row Left to Right
Nose Gunner 179043 F/O Frederick Edward ’Ted’ RUMSEY-WILLIAMS DFC
Ball Gunner 1557907 Sgt Leslie BENFELL
Wireless Operator 655366 W/O Harry JOHNSON
Wireless Operator 977546 W/O Hugh CAMPBELL
Air Gunner Bill KENNARD (not needed on 17.5.45, survived the war)
Not pictured is 197862 P/O Robert James ’Jim’ DUCKWORTH, who, though tour-ex on 355 Sqn, volunteered to fly as screen pilot on the Totham crew’s first op in the Far East. Ref: Matt Poole
RAF Liberator KH250H 'HAWKEYE '
RAF Liberator KH250H 'HAWKEYE ' with Ground Crew
Unfortunatly, the article did not result in making contact with the family
Ieuan Anthony MORGAN, article in
SW Evening Post, 14 Feb 2011
Evening Post, 17 May 1947
MORGAN - Treasured and unfading memories of my darling son, Flying Officer Anthony Morgan, reported missing from air operations over the Andaman Islands, on his 23rd birthday May 17, 1945. - Mother
Evening Post, 17 May 1947
MORGAN - Proud and treasured memories of my beloved nephew, Flying Officer Anthony Morgan, reported missing from air operations over the Andaman Islands, on his 23rd birthday May 17, 1945. - Aunt Kate
Evening Post, 17 May 1947
MORGAN - In ever dear and proud memory of our darling Anthony. - Eluned [sister] and Bill
Evening Post, 17 May 1947
MORGAN - In proud and loving memory of my dear brother Anthony. - Sybil
'I will always remember him smiling,' May Evans, May 17, 1946
Acknowledgments:
We are greatful to Matt Poole, of Wheaton, Maryland, USA, who supplied much of the information. Matt is the son of a Liverpool woman whose first husband also went missing while flying in an RAF Liberator, over Rangoon, Burma, in 1944.
The communial grave holding remains of multiple crewmen from Flying Officer Morgan's bomber was rediscovered in late 2009.
Enquiries were carried out by the Commonwhealth War Graves Commission, but while It is imposible to know whether Tony's remains are among those buried, It was well established that the grave holds multiple sets of remains from the crashed bomber. 'Local villagers had been forced by the Japonese to do this task.'
Mumbles people, who knew 'Tony' and his sisters many years ago have also given us valuable help in collecting this information
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