Robert Alexander Murray

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)