MURRAY, Owen
| Service Number: | 3860 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 21st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Allendale, Victoria, Australia, 1888 |
| Home Town: | Daylesford, Hepburn, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Christian Brothers School, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 29 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Sebastopol Redan State School No 1289 Roll of Honor, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3860, 21st Infantry Battalion | |
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| 8 Feb 1916: | Involvement Private, 3860, 21st Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 8 Feb 1916: | Embarked Private, 3860, 21st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Warilda, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Owen Murray was reported missing at Pozieres just a few weeks after joining the 21st Battalion in France. It would be almost 12 months before he was confirmed by a Court of Enquiry to have been killed in action on 29 July 1916.
In his Red Cross files several men state that Owen was a member of a party bringing up dixies of tea to the men in the front line when a large shell struck the whole group, killing eight men.
Owen's father, also Owen Murray also enlisted, and served with the 24th Battalion in France ebfore being sent home medically unfit.
Owen's younger brother, 4170 Pte. George Murray 24th Battalion AIF, was later killed in action in Belgium on the 4 October 1917, aged 21.
The Ballarat Courier reported,
"Mrs Hart, of 41 Princes Street, Fitzroy, has been notified that her brother, Pte Owen Murray, who was previously reported missing on the 28th July, 1916, has since been reported killed in action. The deceased, who was 28 years of age, was born in Allendale, and was educated at the Christian Brothers' School, Skipton Street, Ballarat. He enlisted from Daylesford, where he followed the mining industry."