MORRISON, George Hugh
| Service Number: | 1668 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Mendooran, New South Wales, Australia , January 1896 |
| Home Town: | Mendooran, Warrumbungle Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Coonamble Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farm labourer |
| Died: | Killed in action, Belgium, 10 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Coonamble Municipality and Wingadee Shire HR, Gilgandra War Memorial, Mendooran Kookaburra March, Mendooran Memorial Wall, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1668, 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
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| 14 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 1668, 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 14 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 1668, 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Ceramic, Sydney | |
| 10 Oct 1917: | Involvement Corporal, 1668, 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1668 awm_unit: 45 Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-10-10 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
George Morrison was a member of the “Kookaburras” which was an enlistment march which took place in NSW during early 1916. They left Mendooran on 15 January 1916 and arrived in Bathurst over two weeks later at nearly 100 strong. George was the son of Andrew Roger and Mary Elizabeth Morrison of Mendooran, New South Wales.
George joined the 45th Battalion on the Western front during September 1916. He was promoted up to Corporal by the time of his death.
George died at Zonnebeke in Belgium, near Passchendaele, and an eye witness to his death stated, “he was a long tall chap with hair betwixt and between. We called him ‘Snakey’. A shell wiped him out at about 11 o’clock on the morning of October 10th.”
He was reported to have been killed along with Cecil Fleming Morgan, who was sheltering in the same shell hole. Although buried together on the battlefield, Morgan’s body was found and reinterred after the war but Morrison’s remains were never found.
George’s older brother, 817 Pte. Thomas William Morrison 36th Battalion AIF, was killed in action on 10 December 1916, aged 26.
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