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The Early Years Click the links in this text 1890 Born 9th August 1890 Bethnal Green London. Naval records indicate born 1889 this was a incorrect. 1905 Joined Royal Navy and signed on for 12 years . 1905 HMS Boscawen I ( Training Ship ), 22.06.05 - 25.09.05 . Rating Boy 2nd class 1905 HMS Ganges ( Training Ship ), 26.09.05 - 17.05.06. Rating Boy 2nd class / Boy 1st class 1906 HMS Eurylus ( Armoured Cruiser ), 18.05.05 - 09.09.06. Rating Boy 1st class 1906 HMS Repulse ( Battle Ship ), 10.09.06 - 14.12.08. Rating , Boy 1st class 1908 HMS Pembroke I ( RN Base, Chatham ), 15.12.08 - 02.06.09. Rating Boy 1st class then Able Seamen 1909 HMS Blenheim ( Armoured Cruiser ), 03.06.09 - 18.11.10 . Rating Able Seamen 1910 HMS Pembroke I ( RN Base, Chatham) ,19.11.10 - 27.01.11 . Rating Able Seamen then Leading Seamen 1911 HMS Victory I ( RN Base, Portsmouth ), 28.01.11 - 31.07.11 . Rating : Leading Seamen 1911 HMS Pembroke I ( RN Base, Chatham ), 08.11 - 04.09.11 . Rating : Leading Seamen 1911 HMS Falmouth (Cruiser) , 05.11.11 - 06.03.14, Rating Leading Seamen then Petty Officer WW1 1914 HMS Pembroke I ( RN Base, Chatham ), 07.03.14 - 02.08.14. 14.06.14 , promoted to Acting Warrant Officer 1914 HMS Excellent & HMS Vernon from 15.06.14 sent for courses to qualify as Acting Mate 1914 HMS Minerva (Light Cruiser),03.0814 - 314.12.17, Acting Warrant Officer 1914 HMS Minerva 1st & 2nd November 1914 attacks Akaba on the Red Sea 1914 HMS Minerva, Bombards Akaba's fort and lands marines and crew . Warrant Officer Bright commands part of the landing party 1915 HMS Minerva (Light Cruiser), Suez Canal & Dardanelles. Minerva helps sink Turkish torpedo boat Demir-Hissar off of Chios on 17th April 1915 1916 HMS Minerva China station, East Africa and Egyptian waters 1917 HMS Minerva supports the landing after Lawrence of Arabia's attack 6th July 1917 on Akaba 1918 HMS Minerva, Morris Moss Bright marries Gertrude Golda Wisburg at Dukes Place Synagogue, London. Promoted Acting Lieutenant 1918 HMS Marlbourgh ( Battle Ship), 27.10.17 - 06.11.18 serves with Grand Fleet as Lieutenant 1919 RN College ( Greenwich , London), 06.02.19 - 30.06.19 1919 HMS Dryad ( Navigation school), Portsmouth ), 07.0719 - 26.04.19 Inter War years 1920 Retires from the Navy with the rank of Lt Commander Joins Association of Jewish EX Servicemen and speaks out against Fascism! 1938 Bright's refrigeration starts servicing and repairing fridges in Morden, London 1920 - 1939 After leaving the Navy tries a number of business ventures including furniture removals, fish then green grocers shop WW2 1939 Recalled to active service (HMS Badger , RN Base, Harwich), 03.11.39 - 11.??.39 1939 Commands of flotilla of mine sweepers in the North Sea. Rank Acting Commander 1940 HMS President (Mine Sweeping Division Admiralty London), 16.11.39 - 03.06.40. Staff officer 1940 HMS Lynx ( RN Base , Dover), 20.08.40 - ??.10.40. Mine sweeping duties 1940 HMS Miranda ( RN Minesweeping Base , Great Yarmouth) 16.10.40 - 24.04.41. First Lieutenant 1941 HMS Miranda 15.07.41 awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by His Majesty King George IV at Buckingham Palace London 1942 HMS Pembroke IV ( RN Base for supply and organisation), ??.12.41 1942 HMS Pembroke I ( RN Base Chatham), 14.03.42 - 05.04.42 1942 HMS Victory ( staff of Commander-in- Chief, Portsmouth ), 06.04.42 - ??.06.42 1943 HMS Wildfire ( RN Base, Sheerness), 30.09.42 - 10.10.43 First Lieutenant 1943 HMS Cabot ( RN Training establishment, Wetherby Yorks ), 16.10.43 - ??.06.44 Executive Officer 1944 HMS Mylodon ( RN Combined Operations Base, Lowestoft ), 29.07.43 - 13.03.45 Executive Officer 1945 Retires from the Navy due to ill heath soon after WW2 ends 02.09.45 Peacetime 1946 Continues with AJEX becomes National Vice President and President of the East London branch 1948 Aide-de-Camp to Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham at Jewish remembrance at Whitehall 1948 Morris and his son Burly restart Bright Refrigeration. The company eventually becomes Bright Instrument a World leading company in medical Cryostat refrigeration 1965 Dies from Cancer due to smoking 1965 He was described at his passing "As one of the great architects of the Jewish peace" by the Jewish Chronicle