MURDEN, Robert Raymond
| Service Number: | 1525 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 December 1914, Enoggera, Queensland |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 15th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Balmain, New South Wales, Australia, 27 April 1888 |
| Home Town: | Annandale, Leichhardt, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Rozelle Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Iron moulder |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 1 May 1915, aged 27 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave, Named on Panel 48 of the Memorial. , Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Annandale War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Balmain War Memorial, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Dec 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1525, Enoggera, Queensland | |
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| 13 Feb 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1525, 15th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Choon embarkation_ship_number: A49 public_note: '' | |
| 13 Feb 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1525, 15th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Choon, Brisbane | |
| 1 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1525, 15th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 1 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1525, 15th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Paul Trevor
'PRIVATE R. R. MURDEN.
Private R. R. Murden, killed in action, was born at Balmain, and was 27 years of age. He was a moulder, employed at Mount Morgan, and enlisted in the Queensland forces.' SOURCE (nla.gov.au)
'AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.
Our Mount Morgan correspondent, writing on Monday, says : — " In recent lists of soldiers killed, in action there appeared the names of two Mount Morgan men — Robert Leonard Elstob, a single man, twenty-two years of age, a bridge carpenter, whose relatives reside near Clifton, and R. R. Murden. who left with the Fifteenth Battalion, who was formerly employed as a moulder at the Mount Morgan Gold-mining Company's works.' SOURCE (nla.gov.au)
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