Basil Morris

Major General Basil Moorhouse Morris CBE, DSO was an Australian Army officer. He served in both the First and Second World Wars. In 1942, he was the Australian military administrator at Port Moresby at the start of the Imperial Japanese advance along the Kokoda Track after the invasion of BunaGona and successfully delayed the Japanese advance until Second Australian Imperial Forces arrived.

Basil Morris was born onDecember 1888 at East Melbourne, Victoria, to William Edward Morris and Clara Elizabeth, ne French. Through his mother, he was related to Sir John French, a prominent banker in New South Wales. He was educated at Church of England Grammar School and after finishing school spent a year at the University of Melbourne. He joined the Melbourne Cavalry and was later commissioned into the Royal Australian Artillery onDecember 1910.

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