John Brinsden McCutcheon VASEY [11831] ^7477,7478

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VASEY, John Brinsden
Service Number: 58
Enlisted: 21 August 1914, Enlisted at Melbourne
Last Rank: Corporal
Last Unit: 2nd Field Company Engineers
Born: Malvern, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1893
Home Town: Kew East, Boroondara, Victoria
Schooling: Wesley College, Melbourne, Victoria
Occupation: Surveyor
Died: Died of wounds - septicaemia from wound to the face and leg, Malta, 14 August 1915
Cemetery: Pieta Military Cemetery Plot B, Row V1, Grave 3
Memorials: Kew War Memorial

World War 1 Service
21 Aug 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, SN 158, 2nd Field Company Engineers, Enlisted at Melbourne
21 Oct 1914: Involvement Lance Corporal, SN 158, 2nd Field Company Engineers, ANZAC Gallipoli
21 Oct 1914: Embarked Lance Corporal, SN 158, 2nd Field Company Engineers, HMAT Orvieto, Melbourne
14 May 1915: Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 2nd Field Company Engineers, In the field
7 Aug 1915: Wounded AIF WW1, Corporal, SN 158, 2nd Field Company Engineers, : Wound to the face and leg. Died en route to Malta
14 Aug 1915: Involvement Corporal, SN 158, 2nd Field Company Engineers, ANZAC Gallipoli


The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Tue 5 Oct 1915 Page 5 Corporal Vasey's Death.
Corporal Vasey's Death.
The parents of Corporal Jack Vasey, of the 2nd Company Field Engineers, who was wounded on August 7, and died of his wounds at Malta Hospital a week later, have received a letter from one of his mates, giving the following account of how their son was engaged when wounded.

The writer says - "Jack was given charge of a party to open up lines of communication, and carried out his portion of the programme splendidly and gallantly. There is not a cooler head in our company than Jack, so the work was in good hands every-thing went well until a Turk got on his
tracks. The first shot tore the sole off the boot, the next took a small piece out of his neck, the next grazed him across the shoulders and the final broke his left shin bone. While this was going on he was doing good work in a trench half full of Turks, so he had a lively time for a while. He managed to get back to our trenches all right after getting hung up numerous times in barbed wire. Ted Dilworth and I were with him before he went on board the hospital ship, and he was in splendid spirits, and there is no need whatever for you to worry. . . . I would follow him anywhere on account of his coolness; nothing excites him under fire. I feel sure he would make a splendid officer. Our little trio is broken up for the present, but I hope not for long". Before this letter came news had
been received that septicaemia had set in, and that in the hope of saving his life the left leg had been amputated, but that the brave young corporal had succumbed.

Before enlisting in August of last year Jack Vasey and Jack Darbyshire, the writer of the letter, were on the staff of a survey party in the Victorian railways construction branch.