Pilot Officer, RAF
Born: August 4th 1911
Died: November 6th 1939
Age at Death: 28
Killed, November 6th 1939
Alexander was born on 4 August 1911 to Edward Morton, a miner, and his wife Emily, of Malquoits, Ewhurst, Surrey (now known as Cornhill Manor). He entered the College in 1926, winning the College cross country race in his last year before leaving in 1930 to train as an RAF pilot.
In 1937 he obtained a short service commission as an Acting Pilot Officer in the RAF. His squadron, 57, was one of the first squadrons to go to France and from October 1939 was based at Rosieres-en-Santerre.
On 6 November 1939, Morton flew a Bristol Blenheim bomber on a reconnaissance mission to examine enemy dispositions on the Siegfried Line, a defensive fortification protecting Germany’s border. The plane was shot down near the German town of Bad Kreuznach by a Messerschmitt Bf109 fighter plane. Morton and his two fellow crew members were killed.
His remains are in the Rheinberg War Cemetery.