[5] After school, Morell worked for Goldsbrough Mort & Co[1] and owned Tullochard out of Inverell.

[6] On 17 September 1914, Morell enlisted as a sergeant in the 6th Light Horse Regiment, A Squadron, and embarked from Sydney on 21 December 1914.

He married Frances Ione Pole-Carew, a VAD stationed in Malta, on 18 November 1918.

[2] He volunteered again in the Second World War[8] and as a Lieutenant Colonel was second-in-command in Sydney for Australian Army Movement Control.

[1] Morell was a director of Sydney Hospital[1] and Honorary Teasurer of Fairbridge Farm Schools of NSW.