Born in Scotland, David Morrison lived briefly in Sunbury, Victoria before moving to Mildura by 1913. The Age reported on 29 May 1915 that “Private D. L. Morrison (reported wounded) is 25 years of age, and has been a citizen of Australia since 1910. He has been during the past three years employed in the dried fruit industry in Mildura, where he enlisted. He was a prominent member of the Soccer club there.”
Wounded at Gallipoli he might have been but venereal disease was the reason for his return to Australia for discharge. He re-enlisted and embarked once more in October 1916.
Promoted to Lance Corporal he was killed in France in May 1918. David Morrison was a member of the tiny Irymple Football Club that lost ten of its players in the war.
