George Alan Vasey

Major General George Alan Vasey CB, CBE, DSO amp Bar was an Australian Army officer. He rose to the rank of major general during the Second World War, before being killed in a plane crash near Cairns in 1945.

George Alan Vasey was born in Malvern East, Victoria onMarch 1895, the third of six children of George Brinsden Vasey, a barrister and solicitor, and his wife Alice Isabel, ne McCutcheon. Because his father was also George Vasey, George Alan Vaseys family always called him Alan. He was educated at Camberwell Grammar School and Wesley College, Melbourne, where his schoolmates included Robert Menzies and Edward James Milford. At Wesley, Vasey served in the Australian Army Cadets, in which he became a second lieutenant.

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