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Full name
  
Gordon Carey Morrissey


Name
  
Gordon Morrissey

Date of birth
  
(1894-07-08)8 July 1894

Date of death
  
8 March 1970(1970-03-08) (aged 75)

Original team(s)
  
University Metropolitan

Place of death
  
Place of birth
  

Gordon Carey Morrissey (8 July 1894 – 8 March 1970) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne University Football Club while a medical student at Melbourne University. Due to the declaration of World War I, Morrissey only played in 2 VFL games.

Morrissey served in World War I before embarking on a medical career in Ingham, Queensland. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his work in addressing an outbreak of Leptospirosis in the Ingham region in the 1930s through introducing the practice of burning cane before harvesting. He later became superintendent of Ingham Hospital.

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Gordon Morrissey Wikipedia


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