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Winsleigh Alexander MURRAY

Regimental number3170
Place of birthNorth Sydney, New South Wales
SchoolFort Street Public School, Sydney, New South Wales
ReligionMethodist
OccupationClergyman
AddressLake Macquarie, New South Wales
Marital statusMarried
Age at embarkation30
Next of kinWife, Mrs Bessie Hilton Murray, 'Morella', Toronto, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales
Previous military serviceServed as Naval Chaplain in Newcastle, NSW.
Enlistment date1 May 1916
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name35th Battalion, 7th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/52/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A68 Anchises on 24 January 1917
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularEnlisted as a Private from the Methodist Mission Newcastle. Give his place to a comrade at Passchendaele where the s/bearers went for him. Has not been heard of since. (Wife)
Place of death or woundingPasschendaele, Ypres, Belgium
Age at death32
Age at death from cemetery records32
Place of burialButtes New British Cemetery (Plot II, Row B, Grave No. 4), Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, Belgium
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
125
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Alexander and isabella MURRAY; husband of Bessie H. MURRAY, Toronto, New South Wales. Native of North Sydney, New South Wales
Family/military connectionsBrother-in-laws Lieut R C Cather MM MC & Bar and Sgt W I Cather MM.

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