[1] He rejoined the navy when World War II broke out, being based at the Flinders Naval Hospital & Balmoral Depot, Rushcutters Bay, and at Leeuwin in Western Australia.

[1] Morris captained the first Victorian Rugby Union team to play South Africa and was a welterweight boxing champion.

He was a member of the ANZAC club, and of the Ashgrove Returned Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia (RSSAILA).

At the Queensland state election of 1938, he contested the seat of Kelvin Grove and defeated the sitting member, Frank Waters.

By the time the Queensland state election of 1941 came around, Morris was an independent with the Protestant Labor Party all but wound up.