MORISON, Cyril
| Service Number: | 901 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 December 1916, 1 year AGA |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 36th Heavy Artillery Group |
| Born: | Wickham, New South Wales, Australia, 2 September 1896 |
| Home Town: | Hamilton, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk (Walsh Island Government Dockyard, Newcastle, N.S.W.) |
| Died: | Waratah, New South Wales, Australia, 17 June 1927, aged 30 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW PRESBYTERIAN-8NW. 9. |
| Memorials: | Newcastle 3rd Australian Garrison Artillery Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Dec 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 901, 36th Heavy Artillery Group, 1 year AGA | |
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| 11 May 1917: | Involvement Gunner, 901, 36th Heavy Artillery Group, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 11 May 1917: | Embarked Gunner, 901, 36th Heavy Artillery Group, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne | |
| 27 Mar 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 901, 36th Heavy Artillery Group, 2nd MD, MU |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
96 years ago today, on the Monday afternoon of the 20th June 1927, Gunner Cyril Morison, 36th Australian Heavy Artillery Group, 1st Siege Battery (Reg No-901), clerk (Walsh Island Government Dockyard, Newcastle, N.S.W.), from 23 Reay Street, Hamilton, New South Wales and Chatham Road, Waratah, N.S.W., father of four (Dorothy, John, Betty, Allan), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 30. PRESBYTERIAN-8NW. 9.
Born at Wickham, New South Wales on the 2nd September 1896 to George and Sarah Rebecca Morison; husband of Jeannie H Morison nee Dunn (married 1920, Hamilton, N.S.W., died?), Cyril enlisted on the 28th December 1916 at Sydney, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on board HMAT A11 Ascanius on the 11th May 1917.
Admitted to hospital 17.4.1918 (slight concussion & influenza), 3.6.1918 (influenza), 9.8.1918 (neurasthenia - shell shock).
Invalided to England 19.8.1918.
Cyril was invalided home on the 27th December 1918, being discharged medically unfit on the 27th March 1919.
Nothing located on Trove regarding enlistment, sickness, wounds, returning home, etc.
Mr. Morison’s name has been inscribed on the Hamilton (Gregson Park) War Memorial, Hamilton Municipal District Roll of Honor - as C. C. Morrison, 3rd Australian Garrison Artillery Roll of Honour, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Newcastle) Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not inscribed on the Hamilton Presbyterian Church (Scots Kirk) Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies on Cyril’s brown granite headstone in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states Died, 17/6/1927.
Officially commemorated – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html...
Headstone inscription incorrectly states Reg No-910.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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