Son of Henry Morton and Eliza Perkins of Wansbeck Gardens, West Hartlepool. He left West Hartlepool Secondary School when it was still at Lauderdale Street to join the Merchant Navy Obtained his First Mate certificate in 1927 quickly rising to become Chief Officer. He appears to have spent some time in the US and Canada where he met and went on to marry Louise Burdayron of Westmount, Quebec. The couple settled in Beachfield Drive in West Hartlepool but their time together was to be short lived. At 03.13 hours on 27 July 1940 his ship – the tanker MV Thiara in convoy OB-188 - was hit in the bow by a G7e torpedo by submarine U-34 (Kpt. Wilhelm Rollmann) and sank about 170 miles southwest of Rockall. Leslie was among 25 crew members lost that day.
Son of Henry Morton and Eliza Perkins of Wansbeck Gardens, West Hartlepool. He left West Hartlepool Secondary School when it was still at Lauderdale Street to join the Merchant Navy Obtained his First Mate certificate in 1927 quickly rising to become Chief Officer. He appears to have spent some time in the US and Canada where he met and went on to marry Louise Burdayron of Westmount, Quebec. The couple settled in Beachfield Drive in West Hartlepool but their time together was to be short lived. At 03.13 hours on 27 July 1940 his ship – the tanker MV Thiara in convoy OB-188 - was hit in the bow by a G7e torpedo by submarine U-34 (Kpt. Wilhelm Rollmann) and sank about 170 miles southwest of Rockall. Leslie was among 25 crew members lost that day.
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