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Pte. Robert Edgar Murray
British Army 1st Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Jarrow
(d.29th Nov 1914)
Robert Edgar Murray, Private 9602, enlisted at Jarrow and served with the 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He died age 28 on the 29th November 1914 and is remembered at Palmer Cenotaph, St Paul's Church also on the Ypres(Menin Gate) Memorial. His medal card records the award of the 1914 Star, War and Victory Medals.
Robert was born in Cardiff 1886, son of Wilhelmina Murray of Jarrow. He was married to Gwenllian Tulloch (formerly Murray). In the 1911 census the family is living at 43 South Street, Jarrow. Wilhelmina(52) widow, is a paper hanger and had been married for 9 years with 4 children but only two survived. William Irving(28)single, a shipsplate rivetter, Robert Edgar(25) married, a shipyard labourer and his wife of 3 years Gwenllian(24), no children. There is also a married daughter Janet Temple Porteous(21) so the census totals do not agree. Janet has two children Henrietta(8) and William is 6 years old.
