UK Naturalisation Certificate & Declarations: Louis Sidney Amidee Morel father Certificate date 20 March 1889 (London England). ‘Alien now residing at 31 Bentinck Road, Nottingham … alleges that he is a native of Boulogne sur Mer, France, and is the son of the late Francois Amedee Morel, a native of Boulogne sur Mer, France, and Sophie Lucy Morel a native of London and of the age of thirty two years and a photographer, is married and has two children under age residing with him viz: Louis Sidney Amidee Morel aged 4 years and Henrietta Lisette Morel age 2 years.’
Nottingham Evening Post, 'Roll of Honour', 31 August 1916 :- “MOREL. Killed in action, May 31st, North Sea battle, Louis Sidney Amedee Morel, aged 31, gunner of H.M.S. Turbulent. Nobly he lived, nobly he died. - From his sorrowing mother, father, and sister.”
Nottingham Evening Post, 'In memoriam,' 31 May 1919 :- “MOREL. – In loving memory of Louis Sidney Amedee Morel, Gunner, Jutland Battle. Ever in our thoughts. – Mother and sister. Also of Henri Louis Morel, July 31st, 1917. – Wife and daughter.”
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Nottingham Evening Post, ‘In Memoriam’, 31 May 1917: ‘Morel. In loving memory of Louis Sidney Amedee Morel, aged 31, gunner of HM TBD Turbulent, killed in action, Jutland Battle, May 31st, 1916. Nobly he lived, nobly he died. From his sorrowing mother, father, and sister.’ (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)
A.B. Louis Sidney Amedee Morel, R.N., H.M.S. Bacchante, whose French-born father, Henri, had served in the “Marine Infanterie,” described some of his experiences of the first months of the war in an article published on 11th February 1915. in the Nottingham Daily Express .
“LIVELY TIMES.
“Nottingham Gunner who is on H.M.S. Bacchante.
“There can be but few families able to boast of having had the father in the navy of one country and the son in that of another, yet such is the case in a Nottingham household. When a young man, Mr. H. L. Morel, a well-known local photographer living on Mansfield-road, served in the naval forces of the country of his birth, France, and during the period of his service attained the rank of corporal in the 2nd Regiment of Marine Infanterie, whose headquarters were at Brest, Finnisterre. In civil life he became a photographer, and came to live in England, establishing himself in Nottingham in the year 1882. Mr. Morel became a naturalised Englishman in 1889. Marrying an English lady, he has seen his son, Mr. L. S. A. Morel, join the English Navy.
“Gunner Morel is now serving on H.M.S. Bacchante, on which he was in the light cruiers action in the Bight of Heligoland on August 28th.
“The vessel, it may be recollected, was afterwards mentioned in despatches for the skill with which she eluded the enemy's destroyers and submarines, returning safely with the dead and wounded from some of the smaller craft engaged at the close of the action.
“Gunner Morel had just completed 12 years in the service, and had passed into the reserve before the outbreak of war. He had not been home for more than a couple of months before he was called up again. He was formerly on H.M.S. Dominion.
“Writing to his parents recently, he says: “You have not heard much of our ship, but we are ere, there, and everywhere, keeping the imports and exports on the move, together with the protection of the Isles. It is very lively here, and when spiced by submarines and mines it is still much livelier. Before receiving the life-saving collar, I had been using the inner tube of a cycle instead, which I found a very good idea, and many of my shipmates followed my example.”
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Nottingham Evening Post, ‘Deaths’, 2 August 1917: ‘Morel. On July 31st, Henri Louis Morel, of 2, Welbeck-street, aged 59, in hospital after a very long illness patiently borne. At rest.’ (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)