Brigadier Maurice Alfred Fergusson, DSO, MC & Bar, ED (5 December 1895 – 27 September 1975) was an Australian Army officer who served during both World Wars.
[1] Fergusson enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 24 August 1914 and was posted to Egypt in the 1st Field Artillery Brigade.
In 1932, he contested the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Evelyn as an independent United Australia Party candidate, but was defeated.
Posted to the Middle East from February 1940, Fergusson was wounded on 9 March 1941 at the siege of Giarabub in Libya and returned to Australia in June.
Fergusson died at Dunedoo in 1975 and was buried in Moreton Bay; his wife and four of his six sons survived him (one, Terence, had been killed in action in 1942 in Papua).