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Bisset was born in Street Kilda, Victoria on 27 August 1912.
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Stan Bisset
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He was a promising Australian Rules football ruckman before being persuaded to play rugby. A back-rower, Bisset played with the Power House Rugby Club in Melbourne. He was one of four Victorians who were selected for the ill fated 1939 Wallaby tour of Great Britain that was captained by Vay Wilson.
The team docked at Southampton on the day when England declared war and after a couple of weeks spent filling sandbags to start the war effort, the squad set sail for Australia having not played a game.
Of the unlucky tourists, only Bill McLean, Keith Windon and Len Smith would return to footballing success after the war. Stan was a lieutenant in charge of an intelligence section while Butch was a platoon commander.
After arriving in Papua New Guinea, Stan and Butch were sent up the Kokoda Track to relieve the 39th Battalion who were holding out the Japanese at Isurava. During the battle Stan was wounded by a bullet which grazed an eyebrow, and Butch was wounded in action on the Kokoda Track and died in Stan"s arms in 1942.
Butch was buried on the Track.
Stan died on 5 October 2010 at a nursing home in Coolum, Queensland.
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Both men saw service in the Middle East before Australian forces returned to the South West Pacific in 1942 to defend Australia against the Japanese push through Papua New Guinea on the Kokoda Track.
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