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World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
Pte. John Millington Murphy
British Army 7th Btn.
from:Manchester
Pte. Joseph J. Murphy
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Ryhope Colliery
Joseph Murphy was wounded in July 1916
Joseph Pierce Murphy
Royal Navy HMS Amphion
from:Thorncastle Place, Ringside, Dublin
(d.6th Aug 1914)
To The Memory Of Joseph Pierce Murphy Of Thorncastle Place. The First Irish Man Who Died In World War I on HMS Amphion 6th August 1914, Age 25 Years. And His Fellow Ringsenders Who Died At Sea 1914 - 1918
Pte. Joseph Murphy
British Army 1st Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
(d.8th January 1916)
Joseph Murphy, brother of Mr. E. Murphy of 9 Manor Street, Ardwick, Manchester, served with 1st Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
M. Murphy
British Army 10th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Capt. Matthew Murphy
British Army Royal Army Medical Corps
(d.10th October 1918)
Captain Murphy drowned in the Irish Sea. He was on board the Royal Mail Ship "Leinster" which was sunk on the morning of 10th October 1918, whilst enroute from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire], Co. Dublin, to Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, after it had been hit by 2 torpedoes fired from a German Submarine.
He is buried east of the Cathedral in the Cloyne (St. Coleman) Cathedral Churchyard.
Lt Michael Joseph Murphy MID.
British Army 3rd Btn. Worcestershire
from:Yorkshire
(d.11th Mar 1915)
Pte. Patrick Murphy
British Army 47th Btn. Machine Gun Corps
from:Dublin
(d.12th Sep 1918)
Patrick Murphy was executed for desertion 12/09/1918 and buried in Sandpits British Cemetery, Fouquereuil, France.
Patrick Murphy, a private in the 47th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, was just minutes away from his appointment with a firing squad. It was the morning of 12th September 1918. World War I had only a couple of grim months left in it. Murphy, a Dublin native, had thus far avoided German bullets. He was not going to be so lucky with the British ones.
Murphy had been sentenced to death by a British army courts martial for desertion. The word “desertion” was afforded a broad definition during the war to end all wars. It didn’t necessarily mean that the accused had physically fled the place of battle. It could mean that a soldier had, for whatever reason, failed to take part in an operation. Not infrequently, soldiers did not refuse. They were simply unable to do much of anything because of fear, fatigue and shell shock, known more commonly these days as post-traumatic stress disorder. The war to end all wars had indeed been a particularly stressful and traumatic conflict. For countless soldiers on both sides there was nothing post about their trauma and stress. It was all too concurrent.
Murphy’s trauma that September morning can only be imagined. As dawn broke, his eyes were covered. The last sounds he heard were prayers from a chaplain, crisply delivered orders and a volley of rifle shots. Murphy was the last of 26 Irish soldiers, all volunteers, executed by the British army during the four years of war. Most were shot for desertion.
Pte. Patrick James Murphy
British Army 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers
from:Harrington, Cumberland
(d.April 1916)
Patrick James Murphy, my great-uncle, died of wounds, as a prisoner of war in Baghdad, Mesopotamia in April 1916. He advanced with 1st Battalion, Connaught Rangers in an attempt to relieve the siege of Kut-al-Amara, during which he was shot through the left shoulder and the top of the left lung. The battalion was obliged to retire, leaving him to the tender mercies of the Turks. He subsequently died in a Catholic infirmary in Baghdad, which advised the family of his passing.
He volunteered for service in the Connaught Rangers, together with my grandfather, his younger brother in 1915. My grandfather Sergeant Bernard Murphy M.M. was transferred to 38th Battalion Machine Gun Corps, before the Connaught Rangers left for Mesopotamia, and served in France and Belgium for the rest of the war.
Pte. Patrick Murphy
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle
Patrick Murphy was wounded in 1916 and 1917
Pte. Peter Murphy
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Kirkdale Lancs.
(d.2nd July 1916)
Peter Murphy is buried in Heilly Station Cemetery
Pte. Richard Murphy
British Army 13th Battalion King's Regiment (Liverpool)
(d.23rd March 1916)
Bmdr. Richard Murphy DCM, MID.
British Army 59th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Wexford, Ireland
My Grandfather, Richard Murphy was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1890. He left Ireland in 1906, and lived temporarily with his elder brother, who was a coal miner, in South Wales. He joined the army in 1909 at Swansea, and was posted into the Royal Garrison Artillery, with the 59th Siege Battery.
He was posted to India, date unknown, prior to 1911, where 59th and 81st Siege Natteries were based at Roorkee, India. They returned to England sometime in late 1914 or early 1915, and entered the war in France approximately April 1915.
He fought in the Battle of Loos, apparently deployed near the town of Vermelles. During the opening days of the battle, he went into hostile territory to repair field telephone lines between his company's guns and observation point, whilst under fire. He was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. During his service he was promoted to the rank of Corporal, which I believe is Bombardier in artillery terms, date unknown. It is believed he was injured at some point in the war, and is known to have been a signalling instructor at, or near Winchester, where he married in 1918.
He survived the war to raise a family in Oxford, where he died aged 80, in 1970.
Pte. Thomas Patrick Murphy
British Army 13th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
(d.7th Jul 1916)
L/Cpl. Thomas Murphy
British Army 1/6th Btn. Welsh Rgt.
from:Wexford, Ireland
(d.1st October 1915)
L/Cpl. Thomas Murphy was killed at the Battle of Loos on 1st October 1915. He has no grave, but is remembered on the Loos memorial.
Pte. Thomas Murphy
British Army 2nd Btn. Leinster Regiment
from:Cork, Cork Ireland
(d.3rd August 1918)
Pte. Thomas Murphy
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Pte Walter Harper Murphy
British Army 6th Btn Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
from:Walham Green
(d.31st Jul 1915)
Cpl. William Murphy
Australian Imperial Force 13th Bde. Australian Field Artillery
from:Australia
(d.10th Oct 1917)
Corporal William Murphy served with the 13th Brigade, Australian Artillery, AIF durig WW1 and was killed in action on the 10th October 1917, aged 26. He is buried in Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery in Belgium. Son of James & Agnes Murphy. Much loved brother of May, Ellen, Agnes & Jim and a much loved husband of Maud (nee Hennessey).
The memorial card sent out by his family reads:
- If we could have clasped his dying hand
- And heard his last farewell,
- It would have not been so hard to part
- With the one we loved so well.
- We often pictured our Will returning
- And we longed to clasp his hand.
- But death has postponed our meeting
- Until we meet in a better land.
William Riley Murphy
United States Navy USS Plattsburg
from:Norphlet, Arkansas
I found a framed photograph of the USS Plattsburg while exploring my grandparents' house in the 1960's, and was told by my father that his father had served in WWI ferrying troops/supplies between the US and Liverpool in England. He worked in the engine room as I recall. I wish he'd told me some stories, but he died in 1964 when I was only 10 in Little Rock, Arkansas. His name was William Murphy, he went by his middle name, Riley.
When his own son, William Riley Murphy Jr. was joining the Navy for WWII, his group was being given an examination. The Navy man passing out the tests noticed his name and asked if his father had served on the USS Plattsburg. Yes. Turns out the man administering the test had served with my father's father, William Riley Murphy Sr. He whispered to my father "Son, you just mark those answers real light." My father got 100%.
Pte William James Joseph Murphy
Australian Imperial Force 55th Battalion
from:Wagga Wagga
William Murphy was born 23rd of March 1897 at Junee, NSW. He enlisted on the Kangaroo March recruitment drive from Wagga Wagga to Sydney 1st of Dec 1915 to 7th Jan 1916. He arrived France with the A55th Battalion, AIF but was wounded on the 21st of May 1917, suffering a Gun Shot Wound to the left shoulder. He was admitted to the Kitchener Military Hospital on the 21st May 1917 and stay until the 25th Aug 1917. He was transported back to Australia 27th October 1917 and discharged.
VAD. Murray
Voluntary Aid Detachment No. 32 Stationary Hospital
Mjr. A. D. Murray
British Army 173rd Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Pte. Christopher Murray
British Army 4th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:Ballina, Co Mayo
(d.23rd April 1918)
Christopher Murray was the son of Mary Murray, of Brook St., Ballina. He is buried in the western part of the Ballina (Old League) Cemetery in Co. Mayo, Ireland.
L/Sgt. Colin Macdonald Murray MM.
British Army 4th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Rogart
My grandfather Colin Murray was a weaver from Rogart who lived on a croft with his widowed mother. He was very tall for his age and the story goes he lied about his age to enlist. Anyway, he was very brave but also had a bit of a temper as he was demoted once for not getting off wooden planks and stand in thick mud so an officer could walk by. He was promoted back up to sergeant in days as they needed men like him.
He was awarded the Military Medal, I believe, for leading a successful attack on a German machine gun. But I don't know the story. I'd love to find out. He did this on the 20th of July 1918. He came home with a German officer's handgun which has disappeared over the years.
L/Cpl. Cornelius Murray
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:Moneygill, Co. Tipperary.
(d.13th June 1917)
Cornelius Murray was the son of Mary Murray, of Crumlin, Moneygill, Co. Tipperary. He is buried in the Castletown Cemetery in Co. Offaly, Ireland.
L/Cpl. David Murray
British Army Gordon Highlanders
from:Linlithgow
My grandfather, David Murray, was captured in the first days of the war and spent the entire war in a POW camp.
Pte. E. Murray
Australian Imperial Force. att. 3rd Salvage Coy. 10 M.G. Coy
Pte. E. Murray
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
Pte. Edward Saunders Murray
British Army 6/7th Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
from:Stranraer, Scotland
(d.3rd Sep 1916)
Edward Murray served with the Royal Scots Fusiliers.
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