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Pte. Peter Murray
British Army 2nd Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Jarrow
(d.25th Mar 1918)
Peter Murray served in the 2nd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales Own) and died age 28 on the 25th March 1918. He is remembered at Brie British Cemetery on Special Memorial 5. His medal card records the award of the 1915 Star, War and Victory Medals.
Peter was born in Jarrow 1889, son of Patrick and Catherine Murray nee McQuade of Jarrow. In the 1911 census the family is living at 10 Shakespeare Street, Jarrow with Patrick(57) a merchant Marine stoker and his wife of 34 years Catherine(55). They had 5 children with 3 surviving. Two are single and living here, Peter(22)is a general labourer in a slag crushing works and Mary Ann is 20 years old.