While serving in the occupation army of the Rhineland in 1919 he met Lewine Corney, and they married later that year.[1] He took up teaching in 1920, first in Jersey, then from 1925 at St Benedict's Priory in Ealing, London.[1]
Morris began writing novels in 1925. He served in World War II as the captain of a searchlight unit in Norfolk. After the war he worked for British Industrial Films Limited, still living in Ealing with his wife. After she died in 1965 he returned to Norwich to live with his two unmarried sisters. He died in 1969.[1]
Brethertonedit
Critic A.C. Ward praised Bretherton as "an adventure-mystery war-novel with an admirably ingenious and leak-proof plot. This book combines a brilliant exercise of creative imagination with a remarkable ability to reproduce, vividly, first-hand experiences, and there is one brief battle-scene…which is memorable." (The Nineteen-Twenties, Literature and Ideas in the Post-War Decade, 1930, pp 163–4). Spy novelist Eric Ambler named the book as one of his top five spy stories (in the Afterword to the 1952 edition of his Epitaph for a Spy).[3][4]
^Mark Valentine - "Collecting the First World War Novels of Major Morris", Book and Magazine Collector, June 2010
^Michael Dirda, Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books, Pegasus Books, 2015. Accessed 19 August 2015
^The Tablet, 24 October 1931, p 10. Accessed 19 August 2015
Amazon entry
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"My Grandfather the WWI Novelist" by David Morris
January 01, 1970
morris, american, cultural, preservationist, walter, morris, confused, with, walter, frederick, morrison, walter, frederick, morris, 1892, 1969, english, novelist, best, known, mystery, novel, bretherton, 1929, world, contents, life, bretherton, list, works, r. For the American cultural preservationist see Walter F Morris Jr Not to be confused with Walter Frederick Morrison Walter Frederick Morris 31 May 1892 1969 was an English novelist best known for his mystery novel Bretherton 1929 set in World War I Contents 1 Life 2 Bretherton 3 List of works 4 References 5 External linksLife editMorris was born in Norwich He attended Norwich Grammar School and then went up to St Catharine s College Cambridge where he studied history 1 He served with the 8th Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment during World War I initially as an infantryman but he was soon commissioned as a temporary officer He reached the rank of major by the age of 27 and was awarded the Military Cross 2 At the end of the war he was in command of the Cycle Battalion of the XIII Army Corps 1 While serving in the occupation army of the Rhineland in 1919 he met Lewine Corney and they married later that year 1 He took up teaching in 1920 first in Jersey then from 1925 at St Benedict s Priory in Ealing London 1 Morris began writing novels in 1925 He served in World War II as the captain of a searchlight unit in Norfolk After the war he worked for British Industrial Films Limited still living in Ealing with his wife After she died in 1965 he returned to Norwich to live with his two unmarried sisters He died in 1969 1 Bretherton editCritic A C Ward praised Bretherton as an adventure mystery war novel with an admirably ingenious and leak proof plot This book combines a brilliant exercise of creative imagination with a remarkable ability to reproduce vividly first hand experiences and there is one brief battle scene which is memorable The Nineteen Twenties Literature and Ideas in the Post War Decade 1930 pp 163 4 Spy novelist Eric Ambler named the book as one of his top five spy stories in the Afterword to the 1952 edition of his Epitaph for a Spy 3 4 List of works editVeteran Youth as Corney Morris c1927 Hodder amp Stoughton The British Empire 1927 Bretherton Khaki or Field Grey 1929 Geoffrey Bles Published in United States as G B 1929 Dodd Mead Behind the Lines 1930 Geoffrey Bles Published in United States as The Strange Case of Gunner Rawley 1930 Dodd Mead Pagan 1931 Geoffrey Bles 5 The Hold up 1933 Geoffrey Bles Something to His Advantage 1935 Geoffrey Bles Goring s First Case as Peter Kippax 1936 Michael Joseph No Turning Back 1937 Michael Joseph The Channel Mystery 1939 References edit a b c d e David Morris The Life of Walter Frederick Morris afterword to W F Morris Pagan Casemate Oxford 2017 pp 315 16 London Gazette edition 31711 p16118 Mark Valentine Collecting the First World War Novels of Major Morris Book and Magazine Collector June 2010 Michael Dirda Browsings A Year of Reading Collecting and Living with Books Pegasus Books 2015 Accessed 19 August 2015 The Tablet 24 October 1931 p 10 Accessed 19 August 2015 Amazon entryExternal links edit My Grandfather the WWI Novelist by David Morris Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title W F Morris amp oldid 1210105089, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
