Lieutenant-Colonel William Morris was a British Army officer who rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Morris, CB
Captain William Morris, detail from 1860 bronze relief sculpted by Edward Bowring Stephens, on his monumental obelisk on Hatherleigh Moor, Devon
Captain William Morris, 1860 bronze relief panel sculpted by Edward Bowring Stephens, on his monumental obelisk on Hatherleigh Moor, Devon. Inscribed on base: "BALAKLAVA"
1860 monumental obelisk on Hatherleigh Moor, Devon, to Captain William Morris (1820–1858). With bronze relief sculpture by Edward Bowring Stephens inscribed: "BALAKLAVA"
Mark Burns was an English film and television actor.
William Morris (British Army officer)
…and wrote the latter's biography, published in 1903: A Memoir of Lieutenant-Colonel William Morris. A fictionalised version of Morris was played by Mark Burns in the 1968 film The Charge of the Light Brigade, with Vanessa Redgrave as his wife (renamed Clarissa in the film) and David Hemmings as his friend…