MURPHY, Martin
| Service Number: | 1233 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Kilkenny, Ireland, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Gilgandra, Gilgandra, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 14 April 1918, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial., Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 1233, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 1233, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Kathleen Bambridge
His personal effects were returned to AIF Base Records Melbourne 1920, awaiting a claimant.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
4th Bn. Australian Infantry, F Company A.I.F.
Address-Berabong Street, Gilgandra, New South Wales.
Enlistment date-16 September 1914.
Age at embarkation-36
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board Transport A14 Euripides on 20 October 1914
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He is one of four Australian soldiers with the surname Murphy of the Great War commemorated on the Kilkenny, MacDonagh Station World War I War Memorial at MacDonagh Station, Station Road, Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny.
The others are:
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.
John Murphy-Gunner, later Corporal, with the Field Artillery Brigade 2, Reinforcement 18-5th Division Howitzer Battery
He served on the Western Front and returned to Australia 21 July 1917. He died of Tuberculosis on 7 January 1927 aged 43 and was laid to rest in the AIF Cemetery, West Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia
James Murphy-Deserted
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