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Extract from the Prison Officers Magazine for September 1927.
An interesting ceremony was held on July 29 when, in the presence of the deputy governor major LH Morris MC, the deputy MO, the steward and other members of the clerical staff, the chief officer and many others, clerk and schoolmaster DJ Morris, who has just retired on pension after more than 30 years service, the last 19 of which were spent at Brixton, was made recipient of a Axminster carpet from his fellow officers. The deputy governor, in the absence of the governor, who was on holiday abroad, in making the presentation and reading an official farewell to C and S Morris, spoke eulogistically of his services as an interpreter and translator in eight foreign languages, and of the manner in which he has always done his duty and that he wished him a long and happy retirement. It was with pleasure he asked his acceptance of the gift as a token of the esteem and affection of his comrades.
The chaplain associated himself with the deputy governor’s remarks and added that Mr Morris’s help and counsel had been given to a great many and found exceedingly useful. C and S Morris returned thanks to the speakers for the tributes paid to him and all those who had subscribed towards the cost of such a handsome testimonial. The carpet he said would be placed in the best room of his new home. |
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