They were eager to return to England and see something of the Great War, which they believed would be over in a matter of months. Their father sent them each £37-10s-0d., (£37.50p.), enough to buy a second cabin ticket aboard Lusitania. once in New York, the brothers appealed to their father for help in Kirkstall to send them enough money for their passage home. The brothers had found the trip aboard Naiad to be “particularly vicious” and regretted their decision to sign on for the year-long voyage. Neither brother was totally happy with this arrangement, however, as they both feared that the war might be over before they had had a chance to become properly involved in it. By this time the Great War had been raging on Europe for some five months. With the promise of promotion to Acting Second Mate on the Naiad in March 1915, when his own apprenticeship had finished, Leslie Morton agreed to signed on. His brother needed some moral support on the Naiad as he had jumped ship on his previous Walmsley vessel, the Wray Castle, and needed to make up his apprentice time. After his return to England in December 1914, however, Clif persuaded Leslie to join him on another Walmsley square rigger, the Naiad, on a sixty-three-day voyage to Australia, via New York, taking oil to the southern continent and bringing grain back to England. He sailed for four years on the Beeswing, during which time he had circumnavigated the world three times and had been round Cape Horn six times.
On board this vessel that he acquired the nickname ‘Gertie’, because of his then high, unbroken voice, and this name stuck with him throughout his career. Walmsley and Co., as an ordinary seaman – which began, for him, a long career at sea. When Leslie Morton was aged 13 years in 1910, instead of returning with his brother to school – The School for Gentlemen’s Sons, at Barry Road, Dulwich, from his parents’ new home in Kirkstall, he instead caught a train to Liverpool and engaged on the sailing ship Beeswing, owned by the shipping firm of J.B. The two of them spent most of their time there on the nearby dock estate and both developed a great love of the sea and ships from these holidays. Swinburne, at 94, Buchanan Road, Seacombe, Wallasey, Cheshire. He spent all his early holidays with his elder brother Cliff, at the home of their maternal grandmother, Mrs. In 1900, the family moved to ‘Wynnmere’, Kirkstall, near Leeds, in Yorkshire, and early in 1901, Annie Morton died in Leeds. He had an older brother named John Clifford ‘Cliff’ and a younger sister named Winifred. Leslie Noel Morton was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, in 1896, the son of John William and Annie Morton, (née Swinburne).
He always maintained that he saw two torpedoes heading towards the Lusitania instead of just one. For his heroism, Leslie was awarded the Silver Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Saving Lives at Sea. Both Leslie and Cliff Morton were rescued from the Lusitania disaster. Leslie, along with another crewman, Joseph Parry, rescued about 100 survivors while they were in the water in a collapsible boat. The brothers were separated when they jumped into the water. Leslie was also the first man to spot the torpedo(es) coming toward the Lusitania.
Leslie Morton (1896 – 1968), 18, was an able-bodied seaman working aboard Lusitania with his brother, Cliff. "Take Her to Sea Mr.Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, United KingdomĬonstance Hill (1920 -?) (please provide dates)
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