Thomas Henry Morgan was born into a musical mining family at end of
the nineteenth century. At twelve he followed his father down the
pit, and at sixteen fought as a boy soldier in the First World War.
Adding to the astonishing fact that more boys under eighteen (like
Tom) were serving at the end of 1915, than in the entire force
Wellington took to Waterloo! Serving as a Colour Sergeant in the
Second, he was captured in North Africa at the fall of Tobruk
imprisoned with some top ranking generals in Castello di
Vincigliata near Florence. He escaped but later captured and
transported to Stalag VIIA in Bavaria where he met the actor Derek
Bond. Pre-war he wrote the music to the Welsh standard a Wea ll
keep a Welcomea and posta "war sang in the chorus of Idloes Owena s
fledgling Welsh National Opera Company. Another WNO artist Mollie
Hair Russell, one-time principal dancer and soprano, recalled Tom
fifty years later as a a big, rugged, handsome mana |great fun to
work witha . He summed up his own philosophy as: a Life aina t all
yer wants but, ita s all yer a aves, Stick a geranium in yer a at
and be a appya
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