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MORRISON, Alexander MacPherson
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 685 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 23 February 1915, Innisfail, Queensland |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 25th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Balmaclellan, Galloway, Scotland., 28 February 1874 |
| Home Town: | Forest Lodge, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Somme, France, 29 July 1916, aged 42 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 23 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Innisfail, Queensland | |
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| 29 Jun 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 685, 25th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Jun 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 685, 25th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Brisbane | |
| 29 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 685, 25th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 685 awm_unit: 25 Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-07-29 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 41 and the son of John Morrison and his wife Nicolas McLellan Waugh.
Balmaclellan (Scottish Gaelic: Baile MhicIllFhaolain, meaning town of the MacLellans) is a small hillside village of stone houses with slate roofs in a fold of the Galloway hills in south-west Scotland. To the west, across the Ken River, the larger and more prosperous New Galloway lies below the Rhinns of Kells.
He is remembered on the Parton War Memorial-Reference WMO167132
Parton Parish Church, A713,Parton, Scotland.
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