Johnny Morgan marched out of Cardigan on August 4th 1914 with C company 4th Battalion The Welsh Regt. He had to be dragged from the pub to join the column as he believed he would not come home from the war. In a photo of the company marching to the railway station, he can be seen in the centre of the image with his cap tipped back where his pals had plonked it as they pulled him from the pub In 1915 he was posted to Gallipoli where 3 fingers on his right hand were shot off, but as he had a trigger finger he returned to regt after recuperation back home in Cardigan He served in Palestine and was killed by a Turkish sniper on the 3rd November 1917 at Beersheba. He left a wife with a 2year old daughter and a 1year old son

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