Arthur Richard Morcom

1891 - 1963  (72 years)

• Name	Arthur Richard Morcom  [1]
  Birth	9 Aug 1891	Balaklava, South Australia, Australia   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 Nov 1963  [1]
  Burial	Dudley Park, South Australia, Australia   [1]
  Person ID	I0745	Tucker Family Tree | The descendants of James Tucker
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2020

  
  

  Father	Richard Morcom
  Mother	Agnes Cherryman
  Family ID	F0903	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Harriet Elsie May Marshman,   b. 5 Oct 1895, "The Hermitage", Grace Plains, South Australia, Australia d. 5 May 1962, Croydon, South Australia, Australia (Age 66 years)  [1]
  Marriage	31 Dec 1919	Methodist Church, Owen, South Australia, Australia   [1]
  		Wedding Photo Harriet Elsie May Marshman and Arthur Richard Morcom This photo was taken on Harriet and Arthur's Wedding day.
  Children	+ 1. K.D. Morcom + 2. R.R. Morcom   3. W.G. Morcom + 4. F.J. Morcom
  Family ID	F0166	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Arthur grew up in the house attached to the harness shop in the main street of Owen. Even though his schooling was fairly basic he became a school teacher and taught in small one-teacher country schools like Fowlers Bay and Tarcoola prior to 1915. he enlisted on 25.5.1915 in A.I.F in WWI and served for approximately 4 years in the Erd Light Horse Machine gun regiment in Egypt, Palestine and the Middle East. He contracted malaria in these areas and suffered recurring bouts for many years after the war. he discharged 19/8/1919. Arthur took a teaching post at Wirrabara forest at the start of 1920. he became involved in various outside activities, Freemasonry, for instance, and this meant he was away from home during evenings and Elsie found this a bit traumatic as the school, with house nearby, was on the edge of a pine forest and half a mile from the nearest neighbour, and five miles from the little township of Wirrabara. Their four sons were born there. They enjoyed the country life roaming the surrounding hilly countryside, mushrooming, digging out rabbits and keeping them as pets, exploring creeks, climbing pine trees close to home, and attending school where Arthur taught about 30 children from the Surrounding rural properties and fores employees' families in Primary School grades 1-7. The month of Adelaid's worst heat wave on record, and the family lived at Croydon and Arthur continued as an assistant teacher at Hindmarsh school until he retired at 65 in 1956. Arthur was in his later years a staunch supporter of the West Torrens Football Club and rarely missed a match or a training night. He and Elsie lived on at Croydon until their deaths.(The Tucker Family in Australia, 1992)

  
  

• Sources

  [S1] Cynthis Henley-Smith, The Tucker Family in Australia, (Gillingham Printers Pty Ltd Adelaide, South Australia), 1992, 125 (Reliability: 3).