Alexander Eric Morrison (known as Eric) was born at Inveraven, Erin Street, Richmond on 30 January 1891.  He was the second son  of Henry Howard Morrison (known as Howard) and his wife Esther, nee Mack (or Mark), and a grandson of Dr. Alexander Morrison, headmaster and principal of Scotch College from 1857 to 1903.  Howard was a tea merchant with premises in Flinders Lane.  The Morrison family moved to East Melbourne about 1894, first renting at Hazelhurst, 4 George Street, and then in 1898 buying Rossmoyne, 30 Powlett Street.  Eric was educated at Scotch and was cox of the rowing team in 1906 and 1907, but in 1908 his positon was in doubt when described as 'rather heavy'.  Esther died in 1904 when Eric was thirteen.  Howard then married Margaret Ann Younie Walton in 1906.  He died two years later and Rossmoyne was sold

When he enlisted on 15 October 1914 Eric stated that he was a salesman.  He gave as his next of kin, his brother, Clive of Arcadia, Spring Street, Melbourne, where he, too, had been living.  He was just over 5ft 9ins, had a ruddy complexion, grey eyes and dark brown hair.  He was assigned to the 4th Light Horse, 2nd Reinforcements at Broadmeadows.

He embarked on 5 February 1915 on board the Katuna.  On 11 February Eric wrote a note giving his name, date, ship and unit, and put it in a bottle and threw it overboard.  The bottle, with its message, was found on the beach at Discovery Bay near Portland, Victoria, and the find reported in the local paper on 22 April.  The message read, 'Bound for Berlin. Return to Grosvenor & Co., 475 Collins Street, Melbourne.'  Grosvenor & Co were stock and station agents, and presumably it was this company which employed Eric as a salesman.

With his unit he proceeded to join the Middle Eastern Forces in Alexandria on 20 May 1915.  On 19 August 1915 he was taken to Malta for admission to hospital with colitis.  He rejoined his unit in Heliopolis, and was transferred to D Squadron on 1 March 1916, and then a few days later to the 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column in Zeitoun.

On 20 March 1916 he embarked for France.  He was appointed driver on 1 May 1916, appointed temporary bombardier on 23 November 1916.  In January 1918 he had a month's leave in England.  He was made temporary bombardier again on 28 April 1918, and bombardier on 28 July 1918.  He was granted another period of leave in UK from 27 November 1918 for three weeks.  Then he was sent to the Australian General Base Depot. He returned to Australia on 9 March 1919 and was discharged on 29 June 1919.

After the war Eric pursued a country life.  Correspondence in his brother, Herbert Fraser Morrison's war service file, gives his address in the early 1920s as Bindi Station, East Gippsland. He later took up land at Mt. Camel, a soldier settler estate near Heathcote.  He married Frances Kathleen (sometimes Kathleen Frances) Clyde on 14 March 1923. In the 1940s the couple and their two children moved to the bayside suburbs of Melbourne where he worked as a clerk.  He died at Moorabbin in 1963.