MURRAY, Charles
| Service Number: | 583 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 August 1914, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tumbarumba, New South Wales, Australia, 1893 |
| Home Town: | Binalong, Yass Valley, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Engine Driver |
| Died: | Died of Wounds, At sea on board HS Soudan, 20 May 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Buries at sea Panel 20, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 583, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 583, 3rd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 583, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 14 May 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 583, 3rd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Evacuated to the Hospital Ship ‘Soudan’. He died aboard that vessel. In accordance with the prevailing policy his body was buried at sea, and he is remembered on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Birth name registered as Charles Westley Crimp Broadhurst but enlisted as Charles Murray
Son of Rachel Murray of Binalong, NSW
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Charles MURRAY (Service Number 583) gave his ‘trade or calling’ on his Attestation Papers as ‘Engineman’.
He was born at Tumbarumba about August 1893. His registered birth name was Charles Weatley Cripp Broadhurst, but in 1920 Murray’s mother asserted that she did not know if his father was still alive or not, ‘as I have not heard of him for 25 years’. Charles had three half-sisters. At the time of his enlistment at Kensington, Sydney on 27 August 1914 he was unmarried and gave his mother, Rachael Murray, living in Binalong as his next of kin.
He embarked HMAT ‘Euripides’ at Sydney on 20th October 1914. After further training in Egypt he embarked to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on Gallipoli in April and probably took part in the initial landings, as he was wounded in action on 14th May.
He was evacuated to the Hospital Ship ‘Soudan’ and he died aboard that vessel. In accordance with the prevailing policy his body was buried at sea, and he is remembered on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli.
Since his father could not be located his medals and other mementoes were given to his mother.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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