Name
Robert Alexander Murray
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/07/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
18719
Worcestershire Regiment
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE
Plot I, Row D, Grave 13.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Rood Catholic Church Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of Rose Rachel/Rachel Rose (nee BIRNIE) MURRAY of Haverstock Hill, London, and the late Saddler Serjeant-Major William MURRAY (17th Lancers).
His parents married 1891 in the Poplar, London, district. Rachel died 1940 in the Hampstead, London, district aged 79.
Robert was born 1895 in York, and resided in London.
On the 1901 Census, he is proving elusive. On the 1911 Census, a tailor’s apprentice aged 15, he was an inmate at the Home for Working Boys, Streatham, London.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in London, was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 19 July 1915, and died at 38 Casualty Clearing Station, France, of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
His headstone inscription reads: "TRANQUIL YOU LIE YOUR KNIGHTLY VIRTUE PROVED R.I.P." Unfortunately, Robert’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)