Place of birth | Ryde, New South Wales |
School | Woodford Academy, Sydney Grammar School, New South Wales |
Other training | Sydney University, NSW |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Student |
Address | Wentworth Falls, New South Wales |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 22 |
Next of kin | Father, Captain J S Murray, The 'Sand Patch', Wentworth Falls, New South Wales |
Previous military service | Served two years Sydney Grammar School Cadets and two year Sydney University Scouts. |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | 2nd Lieutenant |
Unit name | 45th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/62/3 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A69 Warilda on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Lieutenant |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 45th Battalion |
Recommendations (Medals and Awards) |
Military Cross Recommendation date: |
Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | He was 2/Lieutenant on 16/3/16 and Lieutenant on 5/2/17. He won M.C. |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Messines, Belgium |
Age at death | 24 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 27), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 140 |
Medals |
Military Cross 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led his party in the attack with great courage and determination, and by his fine example inspired his men at a critical time. He previously carried out several dangerous reconnaissances and obtained most valuable information.'
Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 133 Date: |
Other details |
War service: Western Front Medals: Military Cross, British War Medal, Victory Medal |