Murray, Harold

Gosford District Casualties of World War One Bragg,Murray, EdmundHarold Allen

Service Service Number Number 1494 5415 Killed in Action 19th May 1915 Killed in Action 5th April 1918 Gallipoli Peninsula France

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NAME

MURRAY-Harold

SERVICE NO

5415

UNIT

13th Battalion, 17th Reinforcements/ 20-5-1916- 45th Btn

RANK AGE at Enlistment

18 ¼ yrs

PLACE OF BIRTH

Wyong Creek, NSW

ADDRESS OCCUPATION

Mill Hand

DATE OF ENLISTMENT

30 Dec 1915

PLACE OF ENLISTMENT PREVIOUS SERVICE NEXT OF KIN

Mother & Grandfather- Tuggerah Lakes/ The Entrance via Wyong/1922- Sandgate, via Newcastle

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION RELIGION

Height;-5’2”. Weight;-120lbs . Chest;-31-34½”. Complexion;-Dark.

Hair;-Black . Eyes;-Hazel .

Methodist

EMBARKED

9 Apr 1916 Sydney per HMAT A71 “Nestor”

DISEMBARKED NOTES WOUNDED/ILLNESS

DIED

BURIED MEDALS

12-14 Aug 1916- Hospital-Shell Deafness- France 30 Aug-3 Sept 1916-Hosp-Rheumatism-France 11-24 Apr 1917-Shell Shock4-22 Jan 1918- SIA Right Foot 5 Apr 1918-Just off Amiens Rd, between Derancourt & Albert- France - Shell Explosion, wounding him in leg & face, 2 nd explosion killing him & others Albert, France/ Memorial Cross erected Millencourt Communal Cemetery Extn.

1914-15 Star-N/E, British War Medal-36269, Victory Medal-35992.

Memorial Plaque & Scroll-343228.

DEPENDANTS PERSONAL EFFECTS

Belt, metal cigarette case, silver wrist watch & strap./

WILL

Beneficiary- Mrs W Murray c/- Wickham PO, Newcastle

CORRESPONDENCE

10-5-23- Mother

REMARKS RED CROSS REPORT

Yes

Mother re married;- 1916/7163 Newcastle- Marion Murray & Mathew J Brady Father- Walter believed to have died in Cambridge, New Zealand c 1914/15 See “Gosford Times” 9 May 1918

Gosford Times 9th May 1918 Private Murray, of The Entrance, has been killed while fighting in France.

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