Morris was born in 1923 in Whitechapel to Barnett and Rebecca nee Nurflus and he had an older brother Israel. In 1939 the family lived at 17 Arbery Road in Bethnal Green. Barnett, Israel and Morris worked as ladies hat machinists.

On November 9 1944, Liberator KH108 AT of 5 OTU, took off from RCAF Abbotsford, British Columbia, with a crew of ten RAFVR members. The operational training mission included a night navigation exercise over Vancouver Island. At approximately 03:30 in the early morning of November 10, 1944, the aircraft crashed into a heavily forested mountain, approximately two miles north of Flora Lake. An intensive search was unable to locate the aircraft and the crew were listed as missing. The accident site was eventually found one year later confirming that the ten crew died in the crash. Due to the remoteness of the area, the crew were buried on site.

5 OTU Detachment, RCAF Abbotsford, provided operational training for RAF and RCAF crews destined for B-24 Bomber Squadrons in S.E. Asia and Burma.

Sidney Helper who was Jewish was also killed on the aircraft and has a page on the website.