RIPLEY AND HEANOR NEWS
JUNE 1915
WOUNDED IN THE DARDANELLES
PTE HERBERT MORLEYOF RIPLEY
ROYAL MARINE LIGHT INFANTRY

Who enlisted at the outbreak of war, and was one of the first drafts to be sent to the Dardanelles,
writing to his aunt, Mrs Lancashire, of Loscoe, under date May 10th, says, " I have had no time
to write this last ten days. We had a fine time in the trenches seven days and nights. I had just
come out for a sleep when I got hit in the right arm, but it is only a flesh wound, and I shall most
likely be in the trenches again by the time you receive this. You need not trouble. I think it will not
last above a month, and we shall then be home in at least two months.

RIPLEY AND HEANOR NEWS 1916
HERBERT MORLEY MAREHAY
ROYAL MARINE LIGHT INFANTRY

Official news was received last Friday by, Mrs E. Morley, of Bamford St Marehay that her son 
Pte Herbert Morley of the Royal Marines had unfortunately succumbed to wounds in the General
Hospital Boulogne on February 5th.
Morley who enlisted at the outbreak of war from Loscoe, where he was living with his sister, 
Mrs Lancashire at the time, left England over two years ago, with one of the first drafts, for the 
Dardanelles and was wounded in that campaign. He was then drafted to France and had only
been back at the front a fortnight from a ten day leave when the sad news was conveyed in a letter
from a sister in the hospital that he had been badly wounded in the leg. 
A later letter stated amputation of the leg had been found necessary, and been carried out, and he
had got over the operation fairly well also that the brave fellow had lost his left eye.
Still the relatives were assured he was progressing favourably, and it came as a shock to them, 
last weekend to hear that he had died of his wounds in a base hospital.