Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Even though Maurice was my Grandfather, I did not remember him. I was three when he died. I was told he never really got over bring gassed and suffered lung and chest problems always. His wife Ruth, my Grandmother came to live with us for many years. He was buried in the South Brisbane Cemetery, now known as the Dutton Park Cemetery, along with other members of his family. Maurice and Ruth had one child Dorothy Agnes Murphy, she died in 1987.

Maurice Murphy enlisted in the A.I.F. in Toowoomba on 12 October, 1916. He embarked for service abroad with the 8/52nd Battalion on the 22 December, 1916. He disembarked in Plymouth on the 3 March, 1917. Marched in to 4th A.D.B.D. Havre on the 3 July, 1917. On the 16 October, 1917 he was wounded in action, Severe Gas Shell Poisoning. He was transferred to the 6th General Hospital, Rouen on the 26 October, 1917 and then to England on the 6 November, 1917. He was discharged from hospital on the 30 April, 1918. on the 6 September, 1918 he went back to France at Rouelles and transferred to the 41st Battalion. By March 1919 he was admitted to hospital again with lung problems. Maurice was discharged from the A.I.F. in Brisbane on the 28 July, 1919. He married Ruth Mary Chambers on the 20 December, 1920. They had a daughter in 1922, Dorothy Agnes Murphy. Maurice never really got over being gassed. He died on the 10th November, 1956 at Greenslopes Repatriation Hospital.