MORISSET, Vaux Liddiard
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | 18 June 1915, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | 31st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Roma, Queensland, 18 January 1880 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Ipswich Grammar School |
| Occupation: | Judge's Associate |
| Died: | Natural causes, Rushcutters Bay, New South Wales, 6 March 1940, aged 60 years |
| Cemetery: |
Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, NSW Cremated |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, Brisbane, Queensland | |
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| 30 Aug 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant | |
| 9 Nov 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 31st Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Nov 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne | |
| 21 Mar 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 31st Infantry Battalion | |
| 19 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 31st Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix) | |
| 10 Jun 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Captain, 31st Infantry Battalion | |
| 20 May 1918: | Wounded Captain, 31st Infantry Battalion, Merris (France), Gas | |
| 29 Sep 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Captain, Officer, 31st Infantry Battalion, Breaching the Hindenburg Line - Cambrai / St Quentin Canal, Awarded the US Distinguished Service Cross for actions near Nauroy | |
| 24 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Captain, 31st Infantry Battalion |
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Awarded the United States Distinguished Service Cross (www.awm.gov.au)
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Captain Vaux L. Morisset, Australian Imperial Force, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 31st Battalion, 5th Division, Australian Imperial Force, at Nauroy, France, 29 September 1918. During the advance following the capture of Bellicourt, Captain Morisset, acting battalion adjutant, observed that flanking troops had failed to advance, leaving a gap in the line. On his own initiative, he gathered several detachments of troops under heavy machine-gun fire and deployed them, covering the threatened gap. His prompt and courageous conduct contributed to the success of the operations in which the 30th U.S. Division was engaged.
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"FOR ELIGIBLE YOUNG MEN. SOME FOOD FOR REFLECTION.
Lieut. V. L. Morisset (who was fighting in France and was invalided home to England) writes to his mother:-
"As Australia has turned down conscription with no uncertain voice, we who are trying to do our bit here will be kept doing it harder than ever, and stand no chance of getting home until absolutely broken up and unfit for further service. The cold-footer at home must feel very cheerful when he is told that he is responsible for this, and when men come back into the trenches to fight with wounds not properly healed because he thinks too much of his own hide to enlist and fill the gaps in the line. I know there are many men who cannot get away, as there are over here, but I know there are many who could. However, Australia has decided that she will not have conscription, so we must just grin and scrap a bit harder in future for her honour and ours.
One type of cold-footer that I would dearly love to get hold of is the one who prattles of the glory of war. I would plump him down in the front line trenches, in the mud and the stench, and make him look into No Man's Land and appreciate what it means and cost to give him the liberty to talk of glories and mighty deeds. There is no glory in war now. That is past. It must only be described as hell." - from the Brisbane Courier 28 Feb 1917 (nla.gov.au)
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