MURPHY, John
| Service Number: | 25806 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Kilkenny, Co Kilkenny, Ireland, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Wolseley, Tatiara, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Tuberculosis, Adelaide, South Australia, 7 January 1927, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
AIF Cemetery, West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia Plot: Light Oval |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Aug 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 25806, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
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| 1 Aug 1916: | Embarked Gunner, 25806, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Orsova, Melbourne | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 25806 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Next of kin-Brother, Patrick Murphy, 32 Upper Malcolm Street, Kilkenny, Ireland.
He served for 2years and 7 months with the Colonial Forces ib South Africa.
Enlistment date-20 January 1916-Gunner-Field Artillery Brigade 2, Reinforcement 18.
Unit from Nominal Roll-5th Division Howitzer Battery
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A67 Orsova on 1 August 1916-he was then aged 30.
War service: Western Front.
Returned to Australia 21 July 1917.
He is one of four Australian soldiers of the Great War with the surname Murphy commemorated on the Kilkenny, MacDonagh Station World War I War Memorial at MacDonagh Station, Station Road, Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny.
The others are:
Martin-Private-4th Bn. Australian Infantry, F Company A.I.F. [Regimental number 1233] Killed in Action, France, 14 April 1918. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Philip [Regimental number 4528] who returned to Australia 4 May 1917 and was discharged on 28 August 1917 in Sydney (medically unfit), but later re-enlisted.
James Murphy-Deserted
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